Mirabelle Quotes

Mirabelle Quote of the day

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

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.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

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

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