Best Hilary Mantel Sayings
- It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women… Distinct
- Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter… Book
- When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes… Clothes
- When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people… Always Works
- When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you… All
- This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this… Better
- The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant… Across
- I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would… Book
- The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This… Across
- Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… Another Book
- Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. Cities
- By the tits of Holy Agnes Agnes
- It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells. Funny
- You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world,… Alone
- It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Absence
- It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at… All
- Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the… Attached
- [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap... H Ope
- You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and… Blown
- 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 eat… Anne
- He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming. Coming
- So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? Adult
- You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear. Bear
- Those who are made can be unmade. Funny
- The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to… Across
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