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01c. 1968 AD

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 / quote

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02c. 1968 AD

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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03c. 1968 AD

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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04c. 1968 AD

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.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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05c. 1968 AD

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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06c. 1968 AD

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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07c. 1968 AD

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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08c. 1968 AD

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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09c. 1968 AD

The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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10c. 1968 AD

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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11c. 1968 AD

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Sara Sheridan / quote

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12c. 1968 AD

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 / quote

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13c. 1968 AD

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 / quote

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14c. 1968 AD

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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15c. 1968 AD

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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16c. 1968 AD

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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17c. 1968 AD

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry’s tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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18c. 1968 AD

The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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19c. 1968 AD

The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise

Sara Sheridan / quote

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20c. 1968 AD

It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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21c. 1968 AD

It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she’d insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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22c. 1968 AD

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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23c. 1968 AD

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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24c. 1968 AD

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

Sara Sheridan / quote

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