“ Give me a book, she said. A book of sermons, anything.What do you want a book for?I want words. I’ve got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose. Hilary Mantel
“ Exactly, he says. And look, Gregory, it’s 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 if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow. Hilary Mantel
“ Cromwell. I am not such a hard man that I don’t see how you are left. Do you know what I say? I say I don’t know one man in England who would have done what you have done, for a man disgraced and fall… Hilary Mantel
“ Champs-de-Mars, the day of celebration: a crowd of people in Sunday clothes. Women with parasols, pet dogs on leads. Stickyfingered children pawing at their mothers; people who have bought coconuts an… Hilary Mantel
“ By the blood of creeping Christ, stand on your feet. Creeping Christ? he thinks. What does he mean? Hilary Mantel
“ But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were some Italian visitors once, they were cheering us on, Brandon and myself, and they thought that Achil… Hilary Mantel
“ But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?398 Hilary Mantel
“ But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood. Hilary Mantel
“ But remember this above all: defeat your instinct. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest,… Hilary Mantel
“ But Christendom was overturned for the Boleyn marriage, to put the ginger pig in the cradle; Hilary Mantel
“ Anne climbing the marble steps to Heaven, her good deeds like jewels weighting wrists and neck. Hilary Mantel
“ And the more the king snips and carps, the more do his petitioners seek out the company of Cromwell, so unfailing in his amiable courtesy. At home, Jo comes to him looking perplexed. She Hilary Mantel
“ And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and w… Hilary Mantel
“ Already d'Anton did not believe this. He recognized it as a disclaimer that Camille would issue from time to time in the hope of disguising the fact that he was an inveterate hell-raiser. Hilary Mantel
“ A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;Cromwell of Wriothesley Hilary Mantel
“ This is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash. Hilary Mantel
“ He wonders, why should my wife worry about women who have no sons? Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other. Hilary Mantel
“ ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you’re a Hebrew... Next time you’re at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says… Hilary Mantel
