54 Quotes About Historical-novel
- Author P.J. Parker
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The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
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- Author P.J. Parker
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For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.
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This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.
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We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors; it has been loaned to us by our children.
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- Author Harry F. MacDonald
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…they looked about as careful and as discreet as a troupe of Visigoths at an afternoon tea party.
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- Author Harry F. MacDonald
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Plans are for those without the good sense to savor the present. Others make plans and neglect their opportunities as they trickle through their fingers like dust. We find beauty in what is.
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- Author Harry F. MacDonald
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Disgusting foods, as Madame de Pompadour discovered, do not arouse the senses. They only dull them. Seduction, as you know by now, for women starts with the ears and for men starts with the eyes and for both, travels directly to the stomach. Some say you need sweet murmurings in the ears, but I say laughter, intrigue and delicacies are more powerful.
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- Author Peter G. Nogel
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She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
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- Author Erik Larson
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The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
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