Quotes by Sara Sheridan

“It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on o...”

“He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.”

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

“Sometimes you don’t even have to have sex at all, and for that kind of sicko, you charge double.”

“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”

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

“They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.”

“You have no future when the past rules you.”

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

“I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.”

“A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a w...”

“You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.”

“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.”

“I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.”

“Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.”

“Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature”

“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...”

“Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”

“It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.”

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