“ I do no damage. This is damage, this.He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. I can’t read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself. Hilary Mantel
“ He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream. Hilary Mantel
“ Has it ever occurred to you that Max feels the same basic contempt for you as you do for him?He feels contempt for me?It is something he feels very readily.No, I hadn’t thought that.Well, the whole wo… Hilary Mantel
“ He and the cardinal agree it would be better if Luther had never been born, or better if he had been born more subtle. Hilary Mantel
“ Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you. Hilary Mantel
“ 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 way. Hilary Mantel
“ There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think...Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course. Hilary Mantel
“ Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn’t. Hilary Mantel
“ Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a… Hilary Mantel
“ It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. W… Hilary Mantel
“ In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly. Hilary Mantel
“ In England there is no mercy for the poor. You pay for everything, even a broken neck.472 Hilary Mantel
