#historic

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#ireland #norway #slaves #vikings #historical-fiction

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England ↗

— Lauren Willig

#historical-fiction #lauren-willig #spy #historical-fiction

I am a slave in your palace." - Sultan Suleyman Khan, Suleyman the Magnificent, The Shadow of God on Earth. ↗

— P.J. Parker

#roxelana #historical-fiction

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. ↗

— M.C. Halliday

#historical #memoir #life

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor. ↗

— Robert Harris

#nazi #men

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#attracted #black #college #colleges #delaware

From THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS coming June 29, 2012: "I used to watch the stallions leaping the mares." "You what!" Hew almost choked. "Well, how else is a girl with no mother supposed to get any education? Although I doubt Mama would have told me very much. So there's really no reason to be timid, Hew. I already know all about the mating process. And to the best of my knowledge, the stallions never 'ignored it until it went away. ↗

— Victoria Vane

#education

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#aware #brutal #event #going #historical

Love will find a way against time itself. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#historical-romance #regency-romance #vampire-romance #love