History Quote by Salman Rushdie

“She was the real treasure, more precious than sapphires, diamonds and gold. At the core of his ancient, cynical heart, he was an acquisitive…

— Thea Harrison

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter

“He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation - was…

— Thomas Hardy

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“there was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she…

— Kate Morton

“She stood at the edge of everything she once believed, and it was quiet—too quiet—like the moment a soul decides whether to break or…

— Anonymous

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy