All Quotes By Tag: Historical-fiction
“Silence brings answers; you just have to listen. So I listened. And it’s not sounds as most people think, listening can be feelings, sights, smells. Listening is receiving just like all the other senses; you just have to be open.”Excerpt From: Marcus A. Nelson. “ Born from Weeds & Rats.” iBooks.”
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“Silence brings answers; you just have to listen. So I listened. And it’s not sounds as most people think, listening can be feelings, sights, smells. Listening is receiving just like all the other senses; you just have to be open.”Excerpt From: Born from Weeds & Rats”
“My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.”
“He watched the newly arrived commuters as they stepped into the carriage, pushed their way down the tube, the odours from their damp clothes mingling, giving off varying degrees of mustiness: London grime, or smoke from airless offices. A woman wearing a blue swing coat glanced along the carriage, casting around for an empty seat. Her pale skin, the searching green eyes, reminded him of Emma. Briefly, he felt his breath catch; he stood, clambered back over his neighbour and indicated for her to take his seat. And so his mind stayed with Emma when he knew he should be working out a strategy for telling Dorothy of his news. But Emma was never far away; like the glitter balls in dance halls, she would slowly rotate in his memory, different facets reappearing, as the hues changed in her auburn hair.”
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“Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his eyes linger over me, stopping here and there in the most uncomfortable places, I know he isn’t really even seeing me as I am. The bloodshot eyes staring out of the alcohol-flushed face are seeing a girl, nearly of age, who owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.–Rocky Evans”
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“All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.”
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“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won’t even be looking at the sky.” Excerpt from Grace Willow’s Last Minute Bride”
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“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”
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“Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn’t the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?”
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“She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.”
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)”
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“A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past,” he said.”
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“Midnight Omen Deja vu” – Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean…at least once in a lifetime.”
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“{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain’t gonna be happy in heaven either!}”
“I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.”
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