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

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?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

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

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

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

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

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

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve