Historical Fiction Quotes

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admire the birds.One day, Alex, when you tire of being a soldier, we will spend all of our days just like this, watching birds and taking in the sun, surrounded by children of our own. You'd like that, wouldn't you, my love?Eliza, you and the Pastures have already taken a perfectly fine soldier and turned him into a lovesick pup. And at this moment, on this very day, there's nothing and nowhere I'd rather be.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong romance she had yearned for all her life.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.

~ Lise Arin

This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.

~ Joanna Shupe

A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his tousled black hair. He will soon ride into peril again as he has many times before. No matter how often he rides away, I never get used to it.

~ Mark Noce

If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

~ Lise Arin

She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.

~ Janell Rhiannon

Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.

~ Janell Rhiannon

I falter in the doorway, swept with memories of my reckless behavior last time I saw him. I sipped wine from a bottle. I kissed him. And as my pulse flutters with excitement, I know I would do it again, given the chance.

~ Meghan Masterson

The engorged moon hung full and low in the sky like a yellow skull. Misshapen clouds stretched across the floating orb with elongated hands and bony fingers grasping. As they neared the docks, the gas lamps grew fewer and the streets gloomier. The cobblestones blackened as they passed the deserted brickfields. Bottle-shaped kilns spat their outrage with orange tongues of fire into the cooling air. Mangy dogs snarled in hunger and wandering sea-gulls screamed their displeasure at the hansom’s passage.

~ Brian S. Ference

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

~ Anne Rouen

All of them. Fated to love in vain.

~ Anne Rouen

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

~ Anne Rouen

It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.

~ Anne Rouen

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

~ Anne Rouen

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

~ Anne Rouen

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

~ Anne Rouen

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

~ Anne Rouen

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

~ Anne Rouen

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

~ Anne Rouen

I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once.

~ Anne Rouen

And what she does not know, what nobody else knows but you, is that I have a special place where I go to be with her; my first, my only love.

~ Anne Rouen

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?

~ Anne Rouen

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

~ Anne Rouen

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

~ Winston Graham

Do you plan on marrying Charles?”She shook her head.“Good. I wouldn’t want to shoot him, but I would.... Finding Promise

~ Scarlett Dunn

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course. --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

~ Lisa M. Prysock

If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always culminates in violence against the innocent.

~ The Black Rose

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plop. Other times, time flashes by in an immodest fashion. So it is with the start of war. First time quivers with the last strum of a wonderful peace, the note holding in the air, mysterious and haunting, filling the listener with awe. Then, with a rising crescendo the terror starts with uncouth haste; with a boom the listener is shaken from their reverie and delivered into the servitude, of an ear-shattering cacophony.

~ M.a. Lossl

To order a wife by mail seemed strange to him indeed; so strange he could only open the letters in the confidential cloak of night, undisturbed by even the servants... Lord Hartford's thoughts at the prospect of reading letters in response to his advertisement for a mail order bride in To Find a Duchess

~ Lisa M. Prysock

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

~ A.s. Byatt

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

~ A.s. Byatt

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

~ Sai Marie Johnson

If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]

~ Donna Thorland

Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep in her Southern soil.

~ Nancy B. Brewer

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

~ Neil Jordan

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

~ Neil Jordan