“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“[T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“If he tries this,” she says, “then half the people in the world will be against it.” He had only thought, and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother! — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“One fear creates a dereliction, the offense brings on a greater fear, and there comes a point where the fear is too… — 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
“...I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The child Elizabeth is wrapped tightly in layers, her fists hidden: just as well, she looks as if she would strike you.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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