393 Quotes by Sara Sheridan

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

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

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

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.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.