London Calling Quotes

“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Musicians are the worst – they’re charming if you’re lucky but they ain’t steady.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Death was often that way, it seemed. Unjust and unnegotiable”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“It didn’t do to feel sorry for yourself. Lots of people were far worse off. Everyone had lost someone.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“When you sit at the back of a room you can keep a check on everything.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“People see what they expect to see.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move – like swimming almost.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the buildings cast a glossy veneer over the streetscape, glowing through the smog. Around the statue of Eros there were crowds of youngers. The girls were a mass of bobby pins and ribbons, hardly dressed for the cold weather. The boys wore suits with thin ties. They were bantering on their way from the cinemas and theatres to the bars, dance halls and music clubs further along.
“I fancy you, Kitty Dawson,” a lone boy shouted.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

“Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling