Maura Heaphy Dutton

“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

“Like their predecessors, these Stewart rulers described themselves not as kings of Scotland but as kings of Scots. They were at the apex of a pyramid of respect and obligation based on actual or assumed kinship that went from the bottom of society to the very top and made the king the 'father' of his people.”
― George Goodwin, Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain

“Seeing the kid walk out of her head and into the world was like watching a dream come to life.”
― Kameron Hurley, Meet Me in the Future: Stories

“... 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