Hilary Mantel Quote
Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal—Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can’t you? We can’t keep up. So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges—Go, you’re free. Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know.
Hilary Mantel
Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal—Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can’t you? We can’t keep up. So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges—Go, you’re free. Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know.
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