"You can have a silence full of words.……" — Hilary Mantel
"You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts."
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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