Kate Braithwaite > Quotes

“It was the way the world worked — unkind, or sometimes plain cruel, especially for the women.”
― Kate Braithwaite, The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph

“But children were not who you made them. They were what they made of themselves.”
― Kate Braithwaite, The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph

“In the schoolroom with my brother’s tutor I remember being taught the words of Cardinal Richelieu, words from another time and another country, but no less apposite here: ‘Although in the course of ordinary cases justice requires authenticated proof, it is not the same with those that affect the state.”
― Kate Braithwaite, The Road to Newgate: A 17th Century London Mystery