Sara Sheridan Quotes - Page 3

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’


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.


She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

Why, that means you’re just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.’


A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

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


Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’
In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

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

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

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

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.

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.

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