British Bulldog
A source page for quotes linked to Sara Sheridan.
“Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.”
“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.”
“Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.”
“People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.”
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?”
“That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.”
“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.”
“We are home to each other now.”
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.”
“Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.”
“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.”
“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.”
“I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.”
“He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.”
“It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.”
“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”
“Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.”