Quotes Tagged With :mirabelle

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone....

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came....

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer....

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


Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.....

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.