“Where are these fucking guns coming from?” — Michael Manley former prime minister of Jamaica Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY 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
“I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
“The best thing to do is grieve for the people you loved & lost, and then welcome and love the new people… — Mark Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.” — Donna M. McDine Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked… — Laura Andersen 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
“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
“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
“On her back, she could feel the eyes of Our Lady Queen of Angels, Saint Joseph, John the Baptist, and the Magdalene.… — Jennifer Kincheloe 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
“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
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
“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
“Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the… — Barbara Kyle Copy Share Image
