London Calling
Sara Sheridan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.”
“Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.”
“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”
“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.”
“The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.”
“Musicians are the worst – they’re charming if you’re lucky but they ain’t steady.”
“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.”
“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.”
“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”
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