Quotes by Sara Sheridan

“Hes more a shape in a drape than a hep cat”

“If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.”

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

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

“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 ch...”

“The jungle is alive. Its dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.”

“The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, There can be no better place in the world than this.Henderson h...”

“It had occurred to her many times that on board it didnt matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book word by word or crossin...”

“It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange th...”

“The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.”

“The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him tha...”

“A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.”

“She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside ports were places of freedom.”

“Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for...”

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.”

“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.”

“I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.”

“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?”

“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.”