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141 " It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. "
― Sara Sheridan
142 " That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools. "
― Sara Sheridan , The Blessed and the Damned
143 " Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. "
― Sara Sheridan , The Secret Mandarin
144 " The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction. "
145 " He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat "
― Sara Sheridan , London Calling
146 " The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. "
147 " As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture. "
148 " It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late. "
― Sara Sheridan , Truth Or Dare
149 " I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community. "
150 " On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper. "
151 " Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket. "
― Sara Sheridan , Brighton Belle (Mirabelle Bevan Mystery #1)
152 " He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work. "
153 " Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring. "
― Sara Sheridan , British Bulldog (Mirabelle Bevan Mystery, #4)
154 " You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list. "
155 " Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies. "
156 " She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself. "
157 " It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger. "
158 " The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation. "
159 " I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate. "
160 " On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk. "