Kimberly

“A man like Hopkins, or like that dolt Richard Miller, will pray every day that God might strike his rivals down, or that a pretty young thing might look his way. And should it happen, he counts it a miracle, a marvel—proof of his standing among the righteous. All a supposed witch does, it seems to me, is everyone the courtesy of saying those prayers out loud, and in company.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

“And women hate widows all the more because they are just a rumbling scaffold at the shipyard or a storm on the channel or a bullet from a hedgerow away from being one themselves.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

“Though she cannot read, she knows well that what gets committed to the page, what gets translated into the code of letters and locked in the coffin of a book, becomes truth while everything else dissolves into the abyss of history lost.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

“And that is it, poverty. A life slowly narrowing around you like the trick walls of a tomb. You have things and then the things fall to pieces, and then it begins to empty your body out as well, and your mind. No dreams, just hunger. A hole whose edges begin to fray, become undone.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches