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I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"

Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.

Lisa Kleypas

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Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”
“I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?

Lisa Kleypas

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Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

Lisa Kleypas

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You thought I was peculiar,” she said in a muffled voice.
His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

Lisa Kleypas

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Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the literary art. To render and maintain it so, however, it is necessary that certain well-defined limits should be set upon the licence which its writers are to enjoy; it is necessary that the work should be honest work; that preparation for it should be made by a sound, painstaking study of the period to be represented, to the end that a true impression may first be formed and then conveyed. Thus, considering how much more far-reaching is the novel than any other form of literature, the good results that must wait upon such endeavours are beyond question. The neglect of them—the distortion of character to suit the romancer's ends, the like distortion of historical facts, the gross anachronisms arising out of a lack of study, have done much to bring the historical romance into disrepute.

Rafael Sabatini

Tags: writing historical-fiction historical-romance writing-process

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Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Tessa Dare

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Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.

Nancy B. Brewer

Tags: historical-fiction civil-war france historical-romance carolina-rain nancy-b-brewer best-seller civil-war-romance-novella

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Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

Neil Jordan

Tags: historical-fiction historical-romance incest

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I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

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You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...