Mirabelle Bevan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

Chris Prentiss

#3. 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.

Sara Sheridan

#4. Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

Joe Rogan

#5. Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.

Sara Sheridan

#6. Darkness.
Everywhere.
The kind that stretched.
For seconds and hours and days.
And then.
Slowly.
The darkness lightened into dusk.

V.E Schwab

#7. American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush

#8. I like you in green,' he said. 'You look as if you're a very beautiful imp.'

Sara Sheridan

#9. My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Why, that means you're just a ... busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'

Sara Sheridan

#11. 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

#12. My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Capp

#13. 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

#14. Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

Sara Sheridan

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Sara Sheridan

#17. She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

Sara Sheridan

#18. Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun ... " Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.

Steven Pressfield

#19. I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

Danny Dyer

#20. This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

Sara Sheridan

#21. A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

Sara Sheridan

#22. I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#23. 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

#24. Why are you doing this? I want you to be alive."
"Because," he said, tracing a finger along my cheek. "Real love is selfless.

Yvonne Woon

#25. Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#26. Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

Sara Sheridan

#27. 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

#28. If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

Sara Sheridan

#29. I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Damon Albarn

#30. A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Sara Sheridan

#31. We need to repeat Paul's prayer: "Lord, help me to will and to work for your good pleasure.

Anonymous