Maura Heaphy Dutton

“In vain did I try to convince her that it would be no less remarkable wherever it should happen. She felt that it was decidedly a thing that would be less remarkable in more exotic places -- a Balinese village, perhaps, or a Mexican pueblo; that it was essentially one of those sorts of things that happens to other people.”
― John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

“There is no one left who dares to quarrel with him. There is no one who dares to contradict him. No one would ever suggest that he is wrong. ... We have agreed to insane laws and now find ourselves in a legal tyranny. We have winked at manic cruelty, and now we close our eyes in fear. We thought that we were steering a galloping horse, but we are tangled in the reins and being dragged to our deaths. We have birthed and dandled and fed a tyrant, and now we do not even mourn when our monstrous baby kills a woman that he once called 'the finest in England.”
― Philippa Gregory, Boleyn Traitor

“The race across the Atlantic had begun, and the "Laurentic" was towing the entire world's fascination behind it.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

“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