Mirabelle Bevan Quotes & Sayings

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

Mirabelle? Mirabelle Bevan? Well, I'll be blowed!"
Mirabelle started, almost spilling her drink. It took her a moment to realize who the handsome man was, now his hair was greying at the edges and he was out of uniform. Puffing laconically on a cigarette, martini in hand, he wore a lounge suit and an understated silk tie with a discreet regimental insignia woven into the fabric.
"Eddie," she smiled. "What are you doing here? — Sara Sheridan

The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings. — Scot McKnight

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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. — Sara Sheridan

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

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob. — Rachel Cohn

In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into. — Sara Sheridan

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog. — Sara Sheridan

Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life — Ikechukwu Joseph

The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses. — Dave Barry

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time. — George Carlin

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. — Sara Sheridan

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

I try to never miss the Zumba class since I believe comedy is a great way to start your week.
... It was great fun, although I had to hold myself back from turning it into a giant mosh pit slam dance. Last time I did that they kicked me out for a month. Today I enjoyed watching an 80 year old lady - with a cane no less - shimmy, her boobs flying like weapons around her waist. — Debra Dunbar

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

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer. — Tony Greig

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast. — Sara Sheridan

You're breathtakingly exciting. You've turned my nights to fire. You've lit my whole world with flame. — Anna Campbell

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

The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star." — Kenneth Franklin

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies. — Mandawuy Yunupingu

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

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave. — Sara Sheridan

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

A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta. — Sara Sheridan

the market economy should be subordinate to and so reinforce the virtuous life. — Daniel M. Bell Jr.

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child's mother or some man's wife? ... we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself. — Adrienne Rich

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind. — Sara Sheridan

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read. — Sara Sheridan

Why, that means you're just a ... busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.' — Sara Sheridan

I like you in green,' he said. 'You look as if you're a very beautiful imp.' — Sara Sheridan

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite. — Sara Sheridan

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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. — Ian McEwan