Top 100 Historical Fiction Fiction Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.
Susan Carroll
#4. What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?
Anne Rouen
#5. The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.
F.C. Malby
#6. Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.
Meredith Jaeger
#7. You think I started out like this?
Well, I didn't.
I started out like anyone else - young and hopeful. I started out arrogant and in love, assuming the whole dizzy world was where it should be: at my feet. I started out - well, I started out a little like you.
Gail Levy
#8. History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#9. Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.
Abigail Green
#10. A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.
J.D. Winston
#11. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?
Suzanne Rindell
#12. Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
David Hopper
#13. The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.
Umberto Eco
#15. 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
#16. When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Just ask..
Victoria Aldridge Washuk
#17. A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with.
- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother
Liz Newman
#18. Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#19. Some girls are sweeter ... Others have a tinge of bitterness ... It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#20. History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.
Aziz Hamza
#21. When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!"
--from Prairie Grace when Georgia's father Thomas realizes gravely ill Gray Wolf has been left at their doorstep
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#22. you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon
James Alexander Thom
#23. Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,
Erin Brown Conroy
#24. If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
Hilary Mantel
#25. Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain.
Miranda Shisler
#28. On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor - and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.
Ellen Emerson White
#29. All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.
Sandi Layne
#30. Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.
Orna Ross
#31. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.
Kellyn Roth
#32. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey Whittam
#33. No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
Mark McGinty
#34. I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once.
Anne Rouen
#35. I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future
Nancy B. Brewer
#36. Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
Peggy Ullman Bell
#37. Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.
Bernie Mcgill
#38. He could fit what he knew about women in a bullet casing and still have room for the gunpowder.
Karen Witemeyer
#39. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.
Orna Ross
#40. I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!
Wilkie Collins
#41. On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire")
Nancy B. Brewer
#42. It's surprising how much life can change in a minute, how we can be swept up in a moment by kind words or affection craved for a lifetime. We'll do anything to feel alive, to feel human.
Brittany Weekley
#43. The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind change its course and angle. The cold soon seeped through my dress and into my bones. An iris from my garland fell in my lap.
Erica Sehyun Song
#45. She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...
Anne Rouen
#46. The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!
Tasha Alexander
#47. The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#48. 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
#49. My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#50. But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.
Dee Farrell
#51. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
Rajib Mukherjee
#52. Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement. - Lord Nash
Liz Carlyle
#53. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.
Donald Riggio
#54. Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
Susanna Kearsley
#55. Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
Nancy B. Brewer
#56. If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]
Donna Thorland
#57. My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
Lauren Willig
#59. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#60. History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way.
Paul W. Feenstra
#62. [A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.
Kellyn Roth
#63. They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.
Orna Ross
#64. No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place.
Naomi Wood
#65. Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.
Tanya Moir
#66. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?
Ian Weir
#67. Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
Saul David
#68. No matter her heartache, she'd begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.
Laura Frantz
#69. She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray
Shelley Gray
#70. Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
Katherine Paterson
#71. Every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.
Hilary Mantel
#72. The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.
Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini
#73. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
Bette Lee Crosby
#74. I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
Charles Lamb
#76. We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.
Orna Ross
#78. 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
#79. War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#80. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'Amour
#81. They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
John Gardner
#82. As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Norman Spinrad
#83. A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.
Bette Lee Crosby
#84. Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.
Anne Rouen
#85. Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight.
Kimberly Cutter
#86. Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned
Heidi Heilig
#87. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.
Jeffery Deaver
#88. Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
John Steinbeck
#89. Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time ... one second-glance to warm our spirits and soothe our aching hearts.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#90. I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
Sandra Cisneros
#91. You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.
Orna Ross
#92. It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.
Anne O'Brien
#93. It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse
Nancy B. Brewer
#94. The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.
Nancy B. Brewer
#95. Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
Barry Unsworth
#96. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.
Elizabeth Wein
#97. Gut instinct said she was bound to be up to her neck in trouble. She always was. Gut instinct was right
Shehanne Moore
#98. She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being
Anne Rouen
#99. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.
Nancy B. Brewer
#100. It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.
Chris Womersley
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