Maura Heaphy Dutton

“If all that was left of us was a story, what would we want that story to say?”
― Claire North, Slow Gods

“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

“... 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

“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