Katie shook her head in dismay. βI thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.β βNo, Katie,β the countess said in a clear voice. βThe worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.β βKatie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury
Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and Iβm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse.
I was born Katie OβReilly,β she began. βPoor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.β Titanic Rhapsody
You might want to hold tight to the arms of the chair.β That was the last warning he offered before he bent his headβ¦
Iβ¦ I do not think thatβ¦ gentlemen do this sort of thing.β Her pulse raced with excitement and anticipation. βOnly scoundrels.
Clearly you were never meant to be a harem girl at all,β he said lightly, running his thumb over the tattoo on her left arm. βYou were meant to be a sea captain.
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Men love those creatures that need to be taken care of. To be with a strong and wise woman is obliging. If you want to tame a lioness you need to become a lion, not a goat. A doe is easier to keep. You give her a little grass, a little milk, and she is tamed. Who do you think a man would choose?
When you're caked in history, you're also caked in a lot of dirt.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany.
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.
Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn't really filter in to our thinking. We didn't realise it at the time - we were just making amends for 2005.
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.