Kimberly

“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

“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

“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

“Really ‘freedom’ means ‘money’, and if anyone tells you otherwise it’s a good bet they’ve plenty of both already.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches