Top 71 Historical Mystery Quotes
#1. It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
Jon Turteltaub
#2. I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
Lauren Willig
#3. Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.
Sandra Gulland
#4. The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
Will Shortz
#5. Ghosts!" gasped Alice. "Real, live ghosts?"
"No! Not 'real, live ghosts!' Spooky, dead ghosts!
Kellyn Roth
#6. There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.
Vladimir Nabokov
#7. 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
#8. After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
Caroline Lawrence
#9. There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
#10. It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.
Carol K. Carr
#11. Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
Myrna Ericksen
#12. Alexandra took the rose and lifted it to her face. The fragrance was intoxicating and the soft petals tickled her lips, as they must have done Benedict's. It was as if he had kissed her. A shiver of delight caressed her body and she felt the warmth of a blush on her throat and cheeks.
Ellen Read
#13. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman
Lauren B. Grossman
#14. No matter how much he denied his attraction to her, those red curls haunted his dreams like brilliant flames that couldn't be extinguished...
"Fuirich air falbh on teine," he said under his breath, but loud enough for her to hear. Stay away from the fire.
Victoria Roberts
#15. Tell them I have the headache
no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
Lauren Willig
#16. As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.
Nancy B. Brewer
#17. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
Kellyn Roth
#18. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.
Tamara Hughes
#19. The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
Tana French
#20. Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.
Ellen Read
#21. If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.
Kellyn Roth
#22. Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.
Chang-rae Lee
#23. The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
Deanna Raybourn
#24. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.
C.J. Sansom
#25. What had these people done to deserve a band of desperate rebels turning up on their doorsteps, and now more trouble!
Yet, what had any of them done, what gods had they displeased to deserve the calamity that was the Romans?
Margaret McGoverne
#26. He wore black breeches, a black doublet, and a black mask adorned with silver. How fitting that he was already dressed in mourning clothes for his own funeral.
Victoria Roberts
#28. He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man's name.
Tamara Hughes
#29. Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.
'Of course,' he says.
Beatrice Hitchman
#30. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Nancy B. Brewer
#31. There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield
Ryohgo Narita
#32. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
Deanna Raybourn
#33. Annella would sooner spill my blood than court me. Furthermore, I like my women a little less spirited. I don't want to have to fear that my wife would put a blade to my throat in the middle of the night. Hell, I'd have to sleep with one eye open.
Victoria Roberts
#34. My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'
Eleanor Catton
#35. I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio
Nancy B. Brewer
#37. Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.
Nancy B. Brewer
#38. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?
Suzanne Rindell
#39. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe
Gwenn Wright
#40. Her fingers clutched him now, and her body writhed with a frustration he knew all too well.
He wanted her.
Now.
Here.
Madeline Martin
#41. The long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.
Stephanie Barron
#42. For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.
Nancy B. Brewer
#43. 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
#45. My first order of business was to look in the side pocket where I had hidden my garnet and gold necklace.
Nancy B. Brewer
#46. 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
#47. She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
Peter G. Nogel
#48. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.
Victoria Roberts
#49. I think that's why I love to read. I'll read almost anything - mystery, suspense, slice of life - but what I really love is romance. Contemporary is good, Historical is better, Paranormal is the best.
S.T. Prussing
#50. 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
#52. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
Rajib Mukherjee
#53. I canna let you die like Da," he said softly.
"And yet ye canna let me live," she replied.
Madeline Martin
#54. 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
#55. History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
Edward M. Lerner
#56. It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.
Lauren Willig
#57. Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.
I.J. Parker
#58. I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.
Lisa Kaye Presley
#59. Sometimes inexplicably the past becomes intermingled with the present
Felicity Snowden
#60. LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
Lauren Willig
#61. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
Gwenn Wright
#62. You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.
Tamara Hughes
#63. I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
Jean M. Auel
#64. It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.
Sharon Kay Penman
#65. Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
Paul Di Filippo
#66. I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.
Robert Stephen Parry
#67. Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet.
Robin LaFevers
#68. The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb
Nancy B. Brewer
#69. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.
I.J. Parker
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