People see what they expect to see.
– Sara Sheridan
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- In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns. – Sara Sheridan
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- I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all! – Sara Sheridan
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- 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
- 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
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- The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends. – Sara Sheridan
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- 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? – Sara Sheridan
- My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. – Sara Sheridan
- 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? – Sara Sheridan
- If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? – Sara Sheridan
- Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true. – Sara Sheridan
- That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools. – Sara Sheridan
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- I’m proud of the culture I come from – we’re a small country and a close-knit community. – Sara Sheridan
- Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket. – Sara Sheridan
- We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. – Sara Sheridan
- It’s part of a writer’s job to be nosy about everything. – Sara Sheridan
- I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research. – Sara Sheridan
- I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online. – Sara Sheridan
- Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time. – Sara Sheridan
- Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation. – Sara Sheridan
- We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. – Sara Sheridan
- Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful. – Sara Sheridan
- Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won. – Sara Sheridan