"Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return……" — Hilary Mantel

"Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before."

— Hilary Mantel

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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
Beneath every history, another history.
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges…
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a…

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More Cannot Return Quotes

This quote is filed under Cannot Return Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for… — Matt Blunt
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. — Unknown Author
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return. — Franz Kafka
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. — Elsa Peretti
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called… — Paulo Coelho
A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe — Erin Hunter
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable. — James Frey
We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return… — Bisco Hatori

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