Top 40 Kate Mosse Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.”

— Kate Mosse

2. “Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.”

— Kate Mosse

3. “If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.”

— Kate Mosse

4. “Free and fair access to books – to reading – is a right and one we should fight for.”

— Kate Mosse

5. “What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”

— Kate Mosse

6. “What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.”

— Kate Mosse

7. “People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.”

— Kate Mosse

8. “I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.”

— Kate Mosse

9. “I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.”

— Kate Mosse

10. “All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don’t think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.”

— Kate Mosse

11. “Love – true love – is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”

— Kate Mosse

12. “History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.”

— Kate Mosse

13. “Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”

— Kate Mosse

14. “Who’s to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.”

— Kate Mosse

15. “You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Falsehood easily becomes accepted truth.”

— Kate Mosse

16. “The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before.”

— Kate Mosse

17. “The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”

— Kate Mosse

18. “The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone – whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs – is welcome.”

— Kate Mosse

19. “The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.”

— Kate Mosse

20. “It is a tale that begins, as it will end, in a graveyard where the bones and the spiders and the worms inhabit the cold earth.”

— Kate Mosse

21. “One cannot always marry the person one loves...”

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22. “That sounds like one of those clever things people say that mean precisely nothing!”

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23. “There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.”

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24. “God is greater than anything man can comprehend. He sees all. Forgives all our sins. He expects no more than for us each to do our best to serve Him.”

— Kate Mosse

25. “The suffering of those we love is harder to bear than anything we feel on our own behalf.”

— Kate Mosse

26. “Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that’s worthwhile – they never do.”

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27. “The human sprit can withstand much, but once broken, it crumbles like dust.”

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28. “What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.”

— Kate Mosse

29. “Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.”

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30. “Usually I decide on what it is I’m writing next by the books I’m reading.”

— Kate Mosse

31. “Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.”

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32. “People think that I’m very serious.”

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33. “My self and my other selves, both past and yet to come, were equally present.”

— Kate Mosse

34. “Music is a personal response to vibration.”

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35. “Actually, I can write anywhere – airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.”

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36. “It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.”

— Kate Mosse

37. “There was no nobility in war. Only suffering.”

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38. “I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.”

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39. “It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.”

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40. “Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn’t know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots.”

— Kate Mosse

41. “Words are our only weapons against the lies of history. We must bear witness to the truth. If we do not, those we love die twice over.’ He paused. ‘I will not find peace until I know how it ended.”

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42. “What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. I have learned much. I have become wise. But have I made a difference? I cannot tell.”

— Kate Mosse