Historical Quotes

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth Kostova

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and intelligence. The heart of the One is pious and evil will cower. Couatl will rise.

Barbara T. Cerny

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

Philippa Gregory