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.
We are home to each other now.
I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.
I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
He prefers his adventures second hand.
He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.
Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.
Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time
Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide sky, the hard surface of the roof, the date palms and the water wells.
The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.
When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.
I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.
I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.
It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.
You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.
It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.
Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.
You have no future when the past rules you.
They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.
