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“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“It is a fact that we historians are interested in what is partly a reflection of ourselves, perhaps a part of ourselves we would rather not examine except through the medium of scholarship; it is also true that as we steep ourselves in our interests, they become more and more a part of us.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.”
― Ekaterina Gordeeva

“My idea of outdoor activity is taking my book outside”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“Miracle is another word for magic, and magic is only science, unexplained.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“It is in the deepest darkness that one sees things most clearly.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“I do not wish to make light of the pain they must have felt at the loss of loved ones. Anyone who has been bereaved knows that the survivor’s recovery is a torturous road.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“Certainty gives only momentary relief, for truth is always overwhelming.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals

“All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams. Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“There are plenty of people who like you just as you are. You should remember that when you start feeling like you're being erased.”
― Heather Cocks, The Royal We

“He has kind of a homicidal face. Or is that just syphilis making him insane? British monarchs do love their syphilis."
"A prerequisite of the job," he agreed.”
― Heather Cocks, The Royal We

“It’s unrealistic to expect to find peace in the arms of someone else if you can’t find it within yourself.”
― Heather Cocks, The Heir Affair

“There are some things that can't be changed with words. Some things have to be seen. They have to be felt.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“Maybe men can learn a thing or two from women.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“Spilling a person's secrets is a lot like spilling their blood. Once it's done, it's done. There's no going back.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Writers got to pick the endings of their novels, but Beatrice wasn’t living a story. She was living history, and history went on forever.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals

“That was what you did with family, wasn't it? You grabbed hold of them and didn't let go. You supported each other's weight, held each other up, even when you lacked the strength to stand on your own.”
― Katharine McGee, Majesty

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Why do I have to be nice when most of the men aren’t?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back