#historic

She did not want to know what charm he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real. ↗

— Penelope Marzec

#historical-romance #paranormal #white-buck #wizard #love

I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all eternity. ↗

— Katrina D. Miller

#lgbt-literature #love

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#historical #love #romance #love

My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you. ↗

— Penelope Williamson

#romance #western #love

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#love #outlander #love

I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction. ↗

— Nike Chillemi

#historical-suspense #murder-mystery #suspense #suspense

I was shy,” said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side. ↗

— Anne Gracie

#historical-romance #humour #romance #funny

What the dev— er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!” “Good,” said the angel. “I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough. ↗

— Anne Gracie

#historical-romance #humour #romance #funny

He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don’t. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal’s fan. “Loyal,” he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#cardinals #contemporary #gothic #historical-fiction #missouri

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#humor #internet #neal #stephenson #wwii