Mirabelle Bevan Quotes

“I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living.
that’s the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hundred years or only a few weeks. It’s all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“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.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on her sleeve? She had done everything she had done for the best. For king and country.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.”
― Sara Sheridan

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”
― Sara Sheridan

“Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.”
― Sara Sheridan

“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into.”
― Sara Sheridan

“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.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Why, that means you’re just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.’
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.
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― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if she was settling down, sleeping in the same bed every night, the darkness uninterrupted by any hint of emergency. It had felt as if all her difficulties were over.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’
‘How?’
‘You’ve come more alive.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“We just have to get back to normal. You know what Winston says – when you’re going through hell, just keep going.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Racing down a country road in a Deluxe Or maybe a Ferrari 166. That’s glamour.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood