1,199 Quotes About Historical-fiction

In one sense, childhood is an eternal present. The road traveled is just a few feet beyond the starting point, and the end goal seems so far away that it gives the false sense of eternity that the young always feel.

Happiness was compromised of small decisions that move you closer to your dreams. Before you could be happy, you had to imagine life as an exciting novel with a happy ending.

Everyone calls you ‘Pasture.’ Do you raise cows or sheep?They call me ‘Pastor’ because I’m like a shepherd for people, and I lead them to safe pasture in God’s good earth.

For her, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was much more than an out-of-the-way French college. It was a secret mountain, the last place in Europe where people could carry on as people — the last place human beings could live together in harmony.

A long, dark shadow was stretching over the valley: the shadow of death and fear, darkness and hatred, which bided its time for the chance to overtake each home, field, and byway until it devoured the last ray of hope in the hearts of the women and men of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.

The town embodied the reality that people could always find a way out, and the impact of one good deed was infinitely more powerful than that of evil.

We live in a world in which men have become wolves for other men.

Life’s not worth living if you don’t give it to others.

He was the last witness of the world that was going extinct, never to be seen again.