Historical Fiction

In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”

― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”

― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”

― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds