Maura Heaphy Dutton

“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

“... Lady FitzAlan lends him Margery Kempe's autobiography, which she says is the holiest book she's read save the Bible. He finds the book -- a bid for canonisation so obvious it should have been titled "If Saint Bridget Did It, So Shall I" -- amusing, but doesn't say so.”
― Jo Harkin, The Pretender

“It was 'the most natural thing in the world' that a woman should walk 'straight out of the house, abandoning her old home life, and relinquishing everything it contained,' she would later explain.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

“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