History Quote by Douglas Sterling

“A man, a life - it was barely worth mentioning. The Visigoths had destroyed the Romans, and had themselves been destroyed by the Muslims.…

— Philipp Meyer

“she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already…

— James Baldwin

“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts…

— Albert Camus

“The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in…

— James Lee Burke

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior women, child…

— Samuel R. Delany

“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the…

— stephen r. lawhead

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind,…

— Enid Bagnold

“That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both…

— David Eagleman

“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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 turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren’t…

— Philip Pullman