Historicalfiction Quotes

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When he got to his feet, the miasma lingered. It came to Shane that he could never remove Jesse from his conscience because he would never be able to forgive himself if he did. Without question, there were some sins that could not be forgiven.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Their temporary home filled with the scent of soup, ink and fresh paper and the reassuring harmonic vibration of piano strings.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

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She'd been freed from weakness by summoning the courage and strength to live and to love. She felt the thrill of freedom, freedom to do as she wished and as she was driven.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

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How many times had she heard her father tread on the old baseball analogy, if you don't swing at the third strike, there's no chance of hitting the ball.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

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I loved it best in the winter, especially during what my father called the Harvest Moon, when the tide rises and recedes almost simultaneously.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Being born upside-down was just the first irony in Suzanne's life, a forewarning that her struggle with existence had just begun.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“In this town very little's changed and I'm afraid it never will.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“No ideas will be rejected out of hand and all ideas will be considered.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“Our independence is still fragile. To seize power is difficult, but to preserve it is more difficult!”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“We must remain ever vigilant… We have to present a united solid front as a determined people.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“Ernest, your name shall be Hengest which is the Germanic name for a stallion.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

“It is a matter of record that I was diagnosed as suffering from PTSD.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“After I return to Australia, I promise you that I shall… qualify as an engineer and then return here and help your people out.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“Well then?' He bent down from his towering height, until I could feel the hard muscles of his chest against mine, and his mouth almost brushed my lips. I could barely breathe, so thick with delicious tension was the air around me.
' What is your answer? Miss Linton, will you be my wife?”
― Robert Thier, In the Eye of the Storm

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“Brenda Storm strolled down the line, examining each camel carefully. When she reached the fifth one, it emitted a guttural sound and unexpectedly span on her shirt. She summoned all the strength and delivered a forceful punch to the side of the camel's snout causing the camel to collapse unconscious onto its side. "I'll take this one." Brenda said. "Do you really think that was necessary?" "Well..." Brenda began, "She'll think twice about spitting on me again!”
― Michael E. Coones, Brenda Storm: Finding Amelia Earheart

“Tulip. Tulipa. Meaning: I declare my love for you.”
― Laura Wood

“We cannot change the past, only live with its consequences.”
― Elsie Sinclair, Feuding Hearts: The Feud of Hearts Book 1: An Enemies to Lovers Clean Regency Romance

“. . . she found herself longing to know more of the vampiress, and the unbridled freedom she must enjoy, stalking the dark streets of London alone and unafraid, the subject of fear rather than its object.”
― B. Lawson Hull, Emelyn Morley and the Waking Dark

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― Tedatom Nguyễn Mạnh Cường, The Emperor & Financial Game

“This isn’t about justice. It’s about power, and it appears you’ve just handed her yours!”
― Elyse DeBarre, Rise of the Magi: Babylon Under Watch

“She studied the fall of empires. Now she's living it. In a dungeon cell, Héloïse realizes: history isn't written by kings. It's written by survivors.”
― Paulson Gracie, The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“And I can't help thinking, if this is where the lost children go, what does that make me?”
― E.J. Wood, Amalie: Book 1 Codename: Phoenix duet

“What remained afterward was neither triumph nor total defeat, but the harder, more ordinary work of simply continuing despite everything.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“The city taught us how to think about stone.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“We honor what we lost by building well here, with what we actually have, not by pretending we still have what we don't.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“A man who spends his life waiting for the real part to begin generally dies having missed it entirely.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“What survived was not the whole truth of it, only the fragments careful hands managed to preserve against considerable odds.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“The survey vessel's innovations, though the ship itself was lost, lived on in the memory and hands of everyone who had helped build her.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“The city of Atlantis did not rise from the sea. It grew into it, ring by ring, the way a tree grows into its own shadow.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis

“The only genuine service she could still offer the world was an honest record of exactly how an empire falls — not through a single dramatic villain, but through the accumulated weight of a hundred reasonable, individually defensible choices.”
― Elias T Voss, Atlantis