Contemporary-romance Quote by Avery Flynn

'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real…

— Nancy Dubuc

“We rode through the night. No food offered, no water provided. They raided town after town until we finally reached the shore. There, we…

— Margeaux Laurent

“The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose…

— Viktor Vijay Kumar

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“You think freeing two hundred slaves will solve anything?” Rolfe kicked a fallen bottle of liquor at her. She knocked it aside with the…

— Sarah J. Maas

“the colonists in Jamestown perished. Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Well, I declare!: The Appalachian dialect of the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee is linguistically closer to Elizabethan English (the language of…

— Deborah Ford

“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of the Chesapeake…

— Frederick Douglass

“Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find, which generally…

— Timothy B. Tyson

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

— Robert Browning

“I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,” said Virginia satirically.”

— Oscar Wilde