British Bulldog 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

“Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.”
― 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

“He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

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

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

“Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.”
― 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

“Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.”
― 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

“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

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

“A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.
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― 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

“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

“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

“Escapers were the cream of the crop.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog