Historical-romance Quote by Angela Quarles

“She scarcely knew what to think except that she was in the presence of a woman who was as close to legendary as any…

— Josie Litton

“The first time her grandfather had told her of her heritage, she’d laughed, thinking it was a jest. But as they’d walked down the…

— Donna Grant

“[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]”

— Muriel Spark

“You—Miss Elizabeth, you are not properly attired to be addressing a gentleman in the dark of the night!” She cocked an eyebrow, letting her…

— Nicole Clarkston

“At the moment, however, she had an ever larger problem: what to do now, when two defenseless women were completely lost in the wilds…

— Judith McNaught

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare’s sister as I had made it, is that…

— Virginia Woolf

“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them. You've probably…

— Helen Zahavi

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her breath at…

— Steven Decker

“She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and…

— Ben H. Winters

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout