Kimberly

“Though Elena lived in full faith about matters fabulous, she’d never expected to come upon evidence. She suspected that exposure to holy magic was the exclusive right of royalty. It takes a princess to come upon the wise man in the wood, or the talking wolf with a thorn in his paw, or something else useful and good. Even if a princess is switched at birth and raised humbly by starving stepparents, she deserves the luck she inevitably finds. Her diadem may be invisible, but magic always notices it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon

“Just like a man to suggest the most obvious thing in the world as though it might be revelation to a woman’s cottony mind. When it seems to me all the most obvious things in the world must be done by women, or else they wouldn’t get done.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

“Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?”
― Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

“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