#historic

Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world was different. She forced him to see things through fresh eyes. Suddenly his library was the eighth wonder of the world, and Corinthian columns merited blasphemy. A ferry across the Thames was an epic journey, and a kiss . . . a kiss was everything. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#love #love

Where do you go when you die twice- lest a thousand deaths? ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf. ↗

— Mark McGinty

#historical-fiction #the-cigar-maker #ybor-city #death

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#historical-fiction #romance #scotland #time-travel #time

This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse. ↗

— Constance O'Banyon

#historical-romance

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#assembled #binding #denied #denies #either

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#biographies #emergence #fully #gap #historical

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#cultural #getting #historical #itself #more

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#enough #generate #get #historic #i

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided. ↗

— Evo Morales

#been #divided #foreign #foreign powers #historically