Quotes by Sara Sheridan

About Sara Sheridan:

Sara Sheridan is a Scottish writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominately in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

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She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

Sara Sheridan

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

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Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

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If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy things that don’t make...

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A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.


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Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


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The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

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People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

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Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

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Escapers were the cream of the crop.

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In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

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If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

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Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.

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Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

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Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

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You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

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Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.


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Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living.
that’s the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hundred years or only a few weeks. It’s all filed away, fresh as the d...

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It was so difficult to dress appropriately when the seasons changed – the British weather was the nothing if not erratic. Spring was the worst – freezing in Brighton this morning and then practically tropical in Knightsbridge in the afternoon.

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I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’


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Author Bio

  • NameSara Sheridan
  • DescriptionScottish novelist
  • BornJune 7, 1968
  • ProfessionNovelist