{"quotes":[{"text":"Quincy and Fisher walked through all this in silence. Silence was the most common stock-in-trade between them, and the portfolio of their friendship was thick with it. So, without words, they stepped across the streets, their feet pressing the pavement with the same sounds, their toes turned just so; they knew what life was like at each other's side. Sometimes he would speak, or she would, small offerings on the altar of their joint survival.","author":"Beth Brower","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":11,"author_id":"Beth+Brower"},{"text":"As people's hopes soared, Jana felt a tinge of fear.","author":"F.C. Malby","tags":["historical-fiction","literary-fiction"],"id":2347,"author_id":"F.C.+Malby"},{"text":"We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.","author":"Erica Sehyun Song","tags":["adventure","adventure-fiction","adventures","coming-of-age","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-ya","fiction","fiction-fantasy","historical-fiction","siblings","victorian","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction"],"id":2809,"author_id":"Erica+Sehyun+Song"},{"text":"But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.","author":"Patrick O'Brian","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":3483,"author_id":"Patrick+O%27Brian"},{"text":"I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.","author":"Andrea Zuvich","tags":["historical-fiction","historical-romance","romance"],"id":4424,"author_id":"Andrea+Zuvich"},{"text":"Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.","author":"J.D. Jordan","tags":["calamity","coming-of-age","historical-fiction","science-fiction","scifi","western"],"id":5561,"author_id":"J.D.+Jordan"},{"text":"Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once when she is seduced of her husband.","author":"James Jones","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":6067,"author_id":"James+Jones"},{"text":"There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":6813,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"The wolf had begun hunting human prey. They were plentiful in the dark city streets and provided enough good meat to satiate his gnawing hunger. He was still very careful not to let any who saw him live. To do otherwise would displease the Master. He would only stalk those people that were foolish enough to walk alone in the night.","author":"Brian S. Ference","tags":["fiction-fantasy","fiction-fantasy-horror","historical-fiction","horror","paranormal","werewolf","werewolves"],"id":7345,"author_id":"Brian+S.+Ference"},{"text":"Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?","author":"Anne Rouen","tags":["historical-fiction","historical-romance"],"id":7575,"author_id":"Anne+Rouen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":700,"pages":70,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}