“Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.” — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.” — Donna M. McDine Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.” — C.B. Huesing Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...” — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“He wondered where the difference was between the good guys and the bad guys if their means were all just born out… — Osiris Brackhaus Copy Share Image
“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Not many have escaped Merthyr, Mam. Not many want to leave in any case. At least there is work in this valley,… — Lynette Rees Copy Share Image
“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
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… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of Venice. However, it wasn’t a city alive with stars dripping like liquid gold into canals, or Bougainvillea spilling from… — Pamela Allegretto Copy Share Image
“He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead,… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering… — Bailey Bristol Copy Share Image
“On an idyllic summer day, we walked through the meadows and hillsides, sitting in circles, laughing and filling sacks of cottongrass, salmonberries,… — Lily H. Tuzroyluke Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Benedick Scott was on his way to freedom or profound failure or, if the usual order of things held up, both. Two… — McKelle George Copy Share Image
“Largely, now, it was not anger he felt, but rather a kind of bone-scraping, quiet, ever-present sorrow. To come to the place… — Elizabeth Graver Copy Share Image
“Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England” — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.” — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.' — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
