#historic

You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #romantic #romantic

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#butterfly #chase #culloden #historical-fiction #jane-yolen

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats. ↗

— Anne Stuart

#rake #historical

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#psychological-thriller #romance #ya #historical

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #historical

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#history #historical

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#back #bring #depression #despite #economy

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#certainly #changed #cooks #fantastic #historical

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#explosive #happened #historical #history #i

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#client #consumer #development #historical #into