History Quote by Mark Sennen

“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable to detect…

— Martin Amis

“It was all too much. I went to bed for three days, sick like an Austen or a Bronte character who'd foolishly wandered the…

— Heather Brittain Bergstrom

“Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic streets of…

— Alice Munro

“I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge,…

— Craig Ferguson

“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the…

— Shan Sa

“ONE DAY SOMEONE you saw every day was there and the next he was not. This was the only way Frankie had found to…

— Sarah Blake

“Now it was a vortex of crime, monsters of the dark and men and women with evil motives. No longer the proud London that…

— John Pirillo

“Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising…

— Fannie Flagg

“It was the same fearful excitement we felt when we happened to drive through what Mummer considered a bad part of London and found…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“Once upon a long time ago, in Manchester, a girl moved next door to a boy...”

— Samantha Towle

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life…

— George Orwell