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“I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’
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― British Bulldog
― 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.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.”
― British Bulldog
― 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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― British Bulldog
― 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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― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.”
― British Bulldog
― 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.”
― British Bulldog
In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.”
― British Bulldog
“Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”
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“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”
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“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.”
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“It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“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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― British Bulldog
― 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?”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“Why, that means you’re just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.’
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― British Bulldog
― 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?”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.
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― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
“Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.”
― British Bulldog
― British Bulldog
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