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I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it. — Destin Bays

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. — Nancy B. Brewer

Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else. — Margie Bayer

When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important? — Destin Bays

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us. — Pope Francis

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. — Kara Walker

Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.
'Of course,' he says. — Beatrice Hitchman

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. — Lauren Willig

If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody. — Jina Bacarr

Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying. — Jessie Clever

It was awful, this love. — Eloisa James

I want to be your lover. Burn your list, Jane. Let me be the one. — Tina Gabrielle

I'm a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time. — Joanna Shupe

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. — Caroline B. Cooney

Does the work yield insights? Did it challenge me to think? Does it suggest a different view of the world? Do I know something I didn't know before? — Gareth Cook

Heart...Soul...Words — Leslie Hachtel

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction — Tina Gabrielle

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods. — Charles Lindbergh

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else. — Alex Mack

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. — Peter Atkins

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself. — Cornelius Van Til

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. — Karl Liebknecht

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. — Alison Krauss

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. — Albert Brooks

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. — Jeanette Winterson

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. — Nathanael West

There is a universality to comedy. — Simon Pegg

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels. — Nicole Luiken

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock! — Katherine Givens

Love should never be a game. — Sherry D. Ficklin

Where are the eggs of monsters most likely laid? What nest incubates them until they hatch? What are the toxic scraps that nourish them to adulthood? — James Patterson

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels. — Kellyn Roth

That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine. — Edward St. Aubyn

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor. — Gary Jennings

She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And — Nina George

Where we going, Dad?" Hamilton asked. "I don't know. But everybody else is leaving! — Rick Riordan

I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real — Michael Connelly