“The Revolution is your bride,” he said. “As the Church is the Bride of Christ.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“You would save them. If you could.” “No. There are periods in revolution when to live is a crime, and people must… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“This revolution - will it be a living?' 'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Life’s going to change. You thought it already had? Not nearly as much as it’s going to change now. Everything you disapprove… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I resent you—” Robespierre said. His words were lost. “The People,” he shouted, “are everywhere good, and if they obstruct the Revolution—even,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
