SSSara Sheridan

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Sara Sheridan

Born 1968 AD; death year unknown

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01c. 1968 AD

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

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02c. 1968 AD

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

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03c. 1968 AD

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

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04c. 1968 AD

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

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05c. 1968 AD

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

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06c. 1968 AD

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

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07c. 1968 AD

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

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08c. 1968 AD

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

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09c. 1968 AD

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

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10c. 1968 AD

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

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11c. 1968 AD

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

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12c. 1968 AD

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

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13c. 1968 AD

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

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14c. 1968 AD

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

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15c. 1968 AD

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.

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16c. 1968 AD

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.

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17c. 1968 AD

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

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18c. 1968 AD

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

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19c. 1968 AD

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

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20c. 1968 AD

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

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21c. 1968 AD

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

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22c. 1968 AD

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

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23c. 1968 AD

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

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24c. 1968 AD

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

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