Quotes by Sara Sheridan

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

“I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

“He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.”

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

“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...”

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

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

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

“Today is the anniversary of my husband’s death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.”

“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.”

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

“The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.”

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

“People see what they expect to see.”