Sara Sheridan, London Calling
15 quotes
"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
"In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns."
"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."
"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."
"He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat"
"She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself."
"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."
"During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
"There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform."
"Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble."
"Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous."
"Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses."
"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."