History Quote by Kati Marton

“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of…

— Anthony Doerr

“They knew all about the war with France from Papa’s magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually like, it…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.”

— Ann Mah

“The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of…

— Arthur C Clarke

“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for…

— Lois Lowry

“Apparently foreigners were not welcome, or Parisians thought they were superior to all other peoples of the earth. I”

— Paulo Coelho

“It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I…

— John Green

“All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter…

— Kiera Cass

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

“I do not have the words to describe the feeling of when the war isn't foreign anymore.”

— Grace Akon

“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she…

— Elizabeth Berg