Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.
Terry PratchettTag: women history humour wit historical hobbies dress-up larps reenactment wenches
The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem
J.A. BelfieldTag: paranormal-romance historical eternal werewolves holloway-pack jem-stonehouse sean-holloway
Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.
Ella March ChaseTag: historical
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: historical sexes
There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: humor literature historical
Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.
Christine FonsecaTag: romance historical ya psychological-thriller
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
Henrik IbsenTag: historical
Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.
Jenny UglowTag: history sad historical a-gambling-man charles-ii
The Postman rings twice, but the Insurance man rings until he collects"-Scott G. Brown
Scott G. BrownTag: historical hiv-aids true-story erotica-romance
I sat there, staring at the television set, the images of her playing over and over, my memories right there on the screen. I was overcome with a deep sense of loss. The tears streamed down my face, and I was not ashamed.
Clint HillTag: historical
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