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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He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Sara Sheridan

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Sara Sheridan

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Sara Sheridan

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Sara Sheridan

People see what they expect to see.

Sara Sheridan

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Sara Sheridan

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry�...

Sara Sheridan

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

Sara Sheridan

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Sara Sheridan

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

Sara Sheridan

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman’s memory. Such a night changes your life forever.

Sara Sheridan

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

Sara Sheridan

Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.

Sara Sheridan

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

Sara Sheridan

I thought of myself mixing the fragrance of a certain day – the heavy musk of the hillside after the rain with the lightness of fresh blossoms doused in the downpour. I thought of each little bottle as the essence of a happy day or a sad one. I mix...

Sara Sheridan

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

Sara Sheridan

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

Sara Sheridan

The bonds between a family are strange indeed.

Sara Sheridan

Women the world over suffer restrictions.

Sara Sheridan

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.

Sara Sheridan

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?

Sara Sheridan

Author Bio

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