#fiction

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#historical-fiction #romance #scotland #historical

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#jennifer-donnelly #revolution #urban #young-adult-series #historical

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915. ↗

— Laurie R. King

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #historical

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control... ↗

— Leila Meacham

#women-s-strength #historical

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drama #fiction #nick-carraway #challenge

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart ↗

— Norman Mailer

#historical

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#historical

How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#romance #historical

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

— Philippa Gregory

#henry-viii #historical-fiction #mary-boleyn #historical

A man´s desire is a powerful thing. It can reduce a strong man to nothing. When he sees a woman who fascinates him, he will give up everything for her. ↗

— Alma Katsu

#historical