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.
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That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

Sara Sheridan

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Sara Sheridan

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Sara Sheridan

The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.

Sara Sheridan

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

Sara Sheridan

Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.

Sara Sheridan

All those kisses. There must have been a thousand. They engulfed me like some kind of all consuming dream where I became very alive and very relaxed at the same time.

Sara Sheridan

I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

Sara Sheridan

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Sara Sheridan

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Sara Sheridan

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Sara Sheridan

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

Sara Sheridan

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

Sara Sheridan

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sara Sheridan

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

Sara Sheridan

The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move – like swimming almost.

Sara Sheridan

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

Sara Sheridan

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

Sara Sheridan

In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the buildings cast a glossy veneer over the streetscape, glowing through the smog. Around the statue of Eros there were crowds of younger...

Sara Sheridan

He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.

Sara Sheridan

Author Bio

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