Operation Goodwood Quotes

“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, Operation Goodwood

“I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Racing down a country road in a Deluxe Or maybe a Ferrari 166. That’s glamour.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“You were born to this, weren’t you?’
‘Well, you know what they say – it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“We just have to get back to normal. You know what Winston says – when you’re going through hell, just keep going.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“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, Operation Goodwood

“The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“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, Operation Goodwood

“The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That’s what seemed real now – the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“There was something unbearable about the damp, dark earth closing over a coffin and the still, empty flesh that was inside. She had attended a hundred funerals, but when you really loved someone there was something too final about a burial. Something brutal.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child – coming downstairs in the morning when the dinner party her parents had hosted the night before was cleared away, but the scent of cigars still lingered.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Racing down a country road in a Deluxe Or maybe a Ferrari 166. That’s glamour.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood

“An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.”
― Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood