Maura Heaphy Dutton

“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

“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

“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

“... Belle was not perfect. However she does not deserve to be depicted or remembered in the manner that she has been. Her murderer should not have the final word.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen