“The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“So often in council he has taken Katherine’s part, as if he were one of her appointed lawyers. ‘You make this argument,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Already d'Anton did not believe this. He recognized it as a disclaimer that Camille would issue from time to time in the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Georges was in a rage. It is a spectacle to comtemplate, his rage. He tore off his cravat, strode about the room,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Possibly it’s something women do: spend time imagining what it’s like to be each other. One can learn from that, he thinks.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they… — 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
