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I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? — Philippa Gregory

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. — Stephanie M. Sellers

Dare I say anything now? — Catherine Crumber

It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come. — Jason Hewitt

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die? — Anne Rouen

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in. — James Jones

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter. — David Housholder

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer? — Sai Marie Johnson

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament

No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope. — Tricia Goyer

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose. — Meghan Masterson

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

He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say! — Logan Crowe

The human heart
Is unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always. — Rumer Godden

I like writing historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

From my Facebook Page: You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of — Mary R. Woldering

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is ... edible ornamentation. — Tessa Dare

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end ! — Rajib Mukherjee

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst. — James Jones

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...? — Anne Rouen

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne

Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement. - Lord Nash — Liz Carlyle

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. — Laura Andersen

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live — Christina Baker Kline

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

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

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

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

Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned — Heidi Heilig

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more. — K. Webster

Plastic flowers last for hours — Bill Fairclough

Sons of a revolution fight for liberty. They give blood, flesh, limbs, their very lives. But daughters . . . we sacrifice our eternal souls. — Laura Kamoie

Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder. — Peggy Ullman Bell

Some of the braver say I am mad. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true. — Hilary Mantel

You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist. — M. Pierce

Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life. — Orna Ross

You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man. — Liliana Shelbrook

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. — Rick Riordan

Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy. — Kellyn Roth

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. — Philippa Gregory

I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio — Nancy B. Brewer

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. — Orna Ross

The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been. — Luo Guanzhong

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ... — Leila Meacham

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be ... [he kisses her] ... MINE ... — Neil Jordan

He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well. — Orna Ross

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. — Rhonda Fink-Whitman

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn. — Robert Stephen Parry

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. — Gale Anne Hurd

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

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. — Parke Godwin

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood. — Lance Morcan

God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again. — Jody Hedlund

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing. — Philippa Gregory

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall. — Orna Ross

Through enjoyment we endure. — Florence Ditlow

I understand, gentlemen," John Kennedy said. "If you find that life it's not easy, let me tell you, death is worse. — Pierre Marshesso

Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed. — F.C. Malby

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went. — Lauren Willig

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again. — David Housholder

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed. — Andrea Zuvich

I've always been drawn to historical fiction. — Karin Slaughter

I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past. — Kellyn Roth

Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over."
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter. — Joseph C. Sciarillo

War is a terrible, bloody thing. — Katlyn Charlesworth

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

Faction" is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction. — Martin Herman

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you. — Susan Carroll

Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change) — H. El-Tahwagi

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Think ere you speak — Valerie Tripp

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt. — Steven B. Weissman

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe. — F.C. Malby

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya. — Ron A Swan

I just love historical fiction. — Jennifer Donnelly

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction. — Sara Sheridan

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

Books are an extension of our imagination — Danny Saunders

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

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

The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow. — Nancy B. Brewer

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said. — Elaine Marolakos Edelson

If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it — Aziz Hamza

And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood — J. Tyson-Capper

True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. — Ruta Sepetys