Blood on the Water Quotes

“You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“How did you tell people something they did not want to know? What did you need to say to have them question the bedrock on which their beliefs of themselves were built?”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“God only knows how many people, what families down the ages, have given their lives for their country. Don’t try telling them now that they did it for an unworthy cause.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“No one wants their dreams broken. Patriotism is a very powerful force.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“not everything comes with an easy answer, or without a price.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But once back in England, making such arguments was like trying to write in the sand; the weight and complexities of the hierarchy of power erased her efforts like an incoming tide.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“To use the skills nature had given you was necessary, as a horse must run, or a bird must fly. It”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up of passions and of love, of belief in a purpose beyond the habits of living from day to day. The”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But once back in England, making such arguments was like trying to write in the sand; the weight and complexities of the hierarchy of power erased her efforts like an incoming tide. For”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water

“MONK ATE DINNER IN the comfort of the kitchen, with Hester and Scuff. There was a checked cloth on the table, and the yellow china jug full of flowers on the dresser at the side was so big it hid half of the plates kept there. The back door was open to let in the warmth of the summer evening and the faint smell of earth and cut grass. “Why’s it matter so much?” Scuff asked. They had been speaking of the new canal at Suez. “Because it will take about five thousand miles off the journey from Britain to the Far East,” Hester replied, eager to sharpen his interest in anything connected with schoolwork.”
― Anne Perry, Blood on the Water