Sofia

“James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial.”
― Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

“While many churchmen were good Christians, true to their gospel of love, others were obsessed with the regulation of women: their sexuality, conduct, and thought.”
― Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

“The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

“As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice...”
― Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials