Historical fiction Quote by F.C. Malby

“Long, low tables fill the throne room, lit by hundreds of fat candles. Tarek is seated at the head of a table set above…

— Emily R. King

“Jonas stood from the bed and took two steps. He turned back and looked at Dmitri, who had stood behind him. “They’re going to…

— Erik Wecks

“...the liquor like fire in his hand”

— Sharon Olds

“The wine club was something she’d started two years ago. As often as customers asked for her and Martin’s recommendations, it had seemed to…

— Julie James

“Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.”

— Rawi Hage

“We'd been drinking for something like fourteen hours straight when the moment had come, the bell, so to speak, was tolling, and it was…

— Loren Niva

“He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the…

— Françoise Sagan

“He lifted the whiskey to his lips. It was the same russet color as the benches, creating an illusion of Ken drinking liquid wood.”

— Justin McFarr

“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented…

— Donal Ryan

“Karl’s76 cigar is on the table in front of me, and that is something really indescribable – was he nice? and understanding?”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Falling Embers, 90 percent alcohol content. That would do. After pouring the liquor, he tossed the shot back, dumping the contents into his mouth…

— Cecilia Robert

“And we were a box of fireworks. A sixty-gallon drum of gasoline. An unstable container of napalm. One spark, one look, was all it…

— Julie Johnson