Historical Fiction Quotes

My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe

Moron, your bus is leaving-from Groundhogs Day Bill Murray

Rumors are the children of truth.

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

The greatest gift you can give an author is turning the page.

Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together.

Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

Brother, " Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray.""Go astray?""Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia Briggs.

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.

Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

The great Sugambrian shrugged. "I did. I supposed you've proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

They didn’t realize that if you take away the possibility of pain, and suffering, failure…you also take away the possibility of happiness, success, and joy." -The Old Man: DOMINATUS

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray

I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

happy is the nation without a history

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something.""You have lost your mind.""Say something less insulting.

It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.

Some of the braver say I am mad.

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

All that I was and the world that was mine are gone forever.

It seemed the heavens themselves conspired to cover up our crime.