Historical Quotes

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

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

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh."~ Gustaf Ræliksen

As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

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

The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin

when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail

Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

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

I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?""You're getting to know me well...""Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.

There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

I could still box your ears.”“Nonsense, ” he scoffed. “You couldn’t reach that high.

Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

This was getting bloody ridiculous, he thought savagely. If she became any more adorable, endearing, or delectable, something was going to get broken.Most likely his heart.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

Oh, it was 1775.” “What?” “1775. The Battle of Bunker Hill.” “Oh.” I laughed. “We learned about it the day we met, ” he added. “Another red-letter day in history.

You’re mad, ” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

We must go to the laboratory at once. I have some cannabis.

...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.

A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. "I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

A story is a wondrous invention.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

War is a terrible, bloody thing.

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity.

His lips were approaching hers, but she could not taste sin. Not yet. Not until she knew the name of this golden haired man, so her soul could sing his name for the rest of eternity.

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.

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

I understand, gentlemen, ” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

I've been thanking God for you being there. For you risking your life for Dove. I'll never forget it, Tyler. I'll never forget you...." "Truth is, Lily, I'll never forget you either.

The only reason I'd lift my skirt is to pull a pistol and plug you in the head.