Maura Heaphy Dutton

“Seeing the kid walk out of her head and into the world was like watching a dream come to life.”
― Kameron Hurley, Meet Me in the Future: Stories

“Like their predecessors, these Stewart rulers described themselves not as kings of Scotland but as kings of Scots. They were at the apex of a pyramid of respect and obligation based on actual or assumed kinship that went from the bottom of society to the very top and made the king the 'father' of his people.”
― George Goodwin, Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain

“I once wanted to be a king who wrote history. Now I realise only kings write history,' Simnel says. 'Is anything true written anymore?”
― Jo Harkin, The Pretender

“... their targets were always the desperate, the ill-educated, the barely financially solvent, the sick and the hopeful.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen