Historical Fiction Quotes

Historical Fiction Quote of the day

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Anything from Kipling

Rumors are the children of truth.

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.

I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

How can one fight for a love that acts as the enemy?

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

The greatest gift you can give an author is turning the page.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together.

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

Of all God’s creatures, only man kills with malice. Only man kills out of vengeance.

Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening

History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

Brother, " Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray.""Go astray?""Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

The old law of an eye for an eye didn’t make them blind to the fact that another man’s terrorist wasn’t their freedom fighter.

If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

I am not an atheist preacher. I am not an absolutist or chauvinist whose ways are immune to evolution. My core philosophy is that I might be wrong.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.