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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ City of Girls

    What you are Vivian is a type of person. To be more specific,you are a type of woman. A tediously common type of woman. Do you think I've not encountered your type before? Your sort will always be slinking around, playing your boring and vulgar little games, causing your boring and vulgar little problems. You are the type of woman, Vivian, because you will always be playing with toys that are not your own. A woman of your type often believes she is a person of significance because she can make trouble and spoil things for others. But she is neither important nor interesting
    book-quoteloveinspirationalhistorical-fiction

  2. Emery Lee _ The Highest Stakes

    Over time, this unspoken attration continued to blossom, refusing to dwindle or fade, though they had little opportunity to foster or nourish it. Slowly and patiently, Robert's sheer persistence in the chase had revealed his heart, and Charlotte came to realize the nameless thing between them was love.
    book-quotehistorical-fictionhistorical-romancehistorical-adventure

  3. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim."
    book-quotefictionhistorical-fictionhenry-viii

  4. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
    book-quotehistorical-fictionhenry-viii

  5. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    I was born to be your rival,' she {Anne} said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
    book-quotehistorical-fictionhenry-viiimary-boleyn

  6. Eleanor Herman _ Legacy of Kings

    Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.
    book-quotehistorical-fiction

  7. John Champlin Gardner _ Grendel

    They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
    book-quoteliteraturehistorical-fictionretelling

  8. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
    book-quotehistorical-fiction

  9. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world.
    book-quotehumorhistorical-fiction

  10. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
    book-quotefictionhistorical-fictionmonasticism

  11. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.
    book-quotefictionhistorical-fictionmonasticism

  12. Robert Harris _ An Officer and a Spy

    ...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
    book-quotehistorical-fictionfrancemilitary
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