The Twisted Root Quotes

“possessing it. But as it happened, every fear had vanished like a shadow before the rising sun over the great sweeping hills they had walked together. Even though he had discovered in her all the warmth and passion he could have wished, she was still as perfectly willing and capable of quarreling with him as always, of being perverse, of laughing at him, and of making silly mistakes herself. Not a great deal had changed, except that now there was a physical intimacy of a sweetness he could not have”
― Anne Perry, The Twisted Root

“If we were the Christian people we pretend to be, she wouldn’t have had to take them. We would care for our own old and sick.”
― Anne Perry, The Twisted Root

“But when they get old we can’t be bothered. We say they’re going to die soon anyway. Wot’s the point in spending time and money on them?”
― Anne Perry, The Twisted Root

“Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.”
― Anne Perry, The Twisted Root