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“Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...” — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...” — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the… — Katarina Jovic Copy Share Image
“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...” — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.” — Brutus 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
“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
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“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation.… — Shauna Singh Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just before he passed behind the hedge at the end of the drive, he turned to look back at Stoke Morrow and… — Adam McOmber Copy Share Image
“ 'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big… — Augusta Li Copy Share Image
“Hanna reached for Margaret's hand, knowing nothing she could say would bring comfort. Margaret would never see her grandmother again. Nor would… — Meredith Jaeger Copy Share Image
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“Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy… — Madi Merek Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)” — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history” — Peter Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.” — Abigail Green Copy Share Image
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“An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury” — T.K. Thorne Copy Share Image
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“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“Information without truth bred skepticism; skepticism without truth bred submission.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...” — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
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