Historical Quotes

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

Margaret Brownley

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

She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...

Jennifer McKeithen

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.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Terry Pratchett

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