Historical Quotes

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

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

The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

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

Conformity is deformity

Love should never be a game.

So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn't be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love of my life...

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.

Enjoy the ride!

What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, " General Schuyler added, "is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.

There shall be no need to pretend. You shall be replaced. Indeed, I will erase you. Quite easily, I assure you. --Ivy Kinley

Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.

The fairies will work their magic. They always do.

She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.

Love is a poison, ' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

All of them. Fated to love in vain.

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."...Victoria"Every good man I know is a cowboy."...ColtPromises Kept

What’s bosoms?” Cade asked.“You’ll find out when you get older, ” Jake said."A lot older, " Colt said.

There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience.

Now, tomorrow, and always.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

How were we so lucky? Two people lost in a world only to find solace and companionship in someone just as fractured as they are. I think destiny has played a hand in our union.

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

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

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]