Sara Sheridan Quotes

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

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.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.