Historical fiction Quote by Lynette Rees

“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the…

— Kristin Kimball

“One place is as good as another, in the valley without exit...”

— Carlo Michelstaedter

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“I’ve wanted to seek out new destinations and new adventures. I’ve sought an escape from the world in which I was raised. Now I…

— Anonymous

“They had traveled, escaped and recovered.”

— Nikki Sex

“I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.”

— Miranda July

“Beware, William of Mercia, you heeded not our warnings and you can no longer turn back, but the path ahead is strewn with danger,…

— K.J. Wignall

“Sometimes we are called back to the things we most want to flee, perhaps because they left such a mark that we don’t know…

— Laura van den Berg

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We…

— Steven Erikson

“Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must…

— John Speed