Mr Sheridan Quotes

Forcing a subject to respond the way you want him to only confirms your bias, my dear. ~ Erin McCahan

As his eyes moved over my face, something gentled in his expression. "Lydia, so forgiving. If only I could let go the way you've seemed to be able to."
"You have to, Brogan. You have to or it will ruin you inside"
"Maybe I'm already ruined, Mo Chroi. ~ Mia Sheridan

But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero. Especially ~ Mia Sheridan

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. ~ Sara Sheridan

Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness? ~ Mia Sheridan

Listen for the inner call and follow it wherever it may lead. ~ Tonya Sheridan

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. ~ Sara Sheridan

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket. ~ Sara Sheridan

But perhaps Kira Dallaire wasn't exactly what she seemed to be. I sat down at my desk and turned on my computer to google her. One good turn deserved another. ~ Mia Sheridan

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. ~ Sara Sheridan

But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master. ~ Vern Sheridan Poythress

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister. ~ Sara Sheridan

I knew I loved her – fiercely and with every part of my heart, even the broken parts, even the parts that felt unworthy and without value. And maybe those parts most of all. ~ Mia Sheridan

I have got into one of my moping moods tonight,' said my father, after a silence; then quoting Shakespeare, whom, by way of keeping up our English, he used to read aloud, he said:

'In truth I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I got it – came by it . . .

I forget the rest. ~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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

He inspired women to want to cuddle him and then lick him. ~ Mia Sheridan

After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look away.
"Why are you looking at me?" I hiss at him, my cheeks turning hot, filled with shame for the exchange he just heard.
He just keeps looking at me for a moment, and then he shrugs. "Because I like your face," he says, but now a corner of his mouth is quirking up in a half smile. ~ Mia Sheridan

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom. ~ Tonya Sheridan

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes. ~ Sara Sheridan

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me. ~ Dinah Sheridan

There has only ever been you. There. Will. Only. Ever. Be. You. ~ Mia Sheridan

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone. ~ Sara Sheridan

And the thing about falling in love
is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty,
even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place
to dream. ~ Mia Sheridan

I love you Reece Sheridan."
He grinned. "I kinda figured. ~ Pamela Clare

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history. ~ Dinah Sheridan

She'd been intimate with the man, but she had such hazy memories of who he'd really been as a person. She supposed it was because she hadn't ever really known. Perhaps she hadn't even really cared, though at the time she'd thought she did. She'd put her own ideals on him, never looking deep enough to consider that he wasn't able or interested to meet them. Yes, she'd made so many mistakes all in a desperate attempt to finally win the love she'd been denied by her parents. And yet always choosing men who were incapable of loving her. What a warped merry-go-round she'd climbed upon. ~ Mia Sheridan

I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank. ~ Sara Sheridan

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me. ~ Sara Sheridan

Who didn't want the distraction of a willing body to remind you that you hadn't just been made for suffering ~ Mia Sheridan

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. ~ Dinah Sheridan

In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the buildings cast a glossy veneer over the streetscape, glowing through the smog. Around the statue of Eros there were crowds of youngers. The girls were a mass of bobby pins and ribbons, hardly dressed for the cold weather. The boys wore suits with thin ties. They were bantering on their way from the cinemas and theatres to the bars, dance halls and music clubs further along.
"I fancy you, Kitty Dawson," a lone boy shouted. ~ Sara Sheridan