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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear. — Hilary Mantel

He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas. — Hilary Mantel

Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent? — Hilary Mantel

Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle. — Hilary Mantel

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook. — Hilary Mantel

The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island. — Hilary Mantel

Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. — Hilary Mantel

Jesus Maria,' the boy says. 'The star that guides us to Bethlehem. I thought it was an engine for torture. — Hilary Mantel

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true. — Stephen King

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged
but not until I'm down to a size eight. — Henriette Mantel

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose. — Hilary Mantel

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. — Hilary Mantel

She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey. — Hilary Mantel

Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to. — Hilary Mantel

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up. — Hilary Mantel

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels. — Hilary Mantel

Why would I trust a man with my business, if he could not manage his own? — Hilary Mantel

Anne says, "It is all about me. — Hilary Mantel

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour. — Hilary Mantel

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. — Hilary Mantel

Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future: — Hilary Mantel

he is sui generis, a scholar and a wit. — Hilary Mantel

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel

in case the dead ones rolled in late. — Hilary Mantel

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy ...
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Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel

Never mind." He thinks, "tomorrow is another battle, tomorrow is another world. — Hilary Mantel

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel

My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady. — Hilary Mantel

The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked — Adriana Trigiani

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad. — Hilary Mantel

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities. — Hilary Mantel

If life is a chain of gold, sometimes God hangs a charm on it. — Hilary Mantel

I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what i believe. I cannot unlive my life — Hilary Mantel

I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person. — Hilary Mantel

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. — Hilary Mantel

Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan. — Hilary Mantel

Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you. — Hilary Mantel

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. — Hilary Mantel

Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine? — Hilary Mantel

We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later — Hilary Mantel

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends? — Hilary Mantel

I felt," he said, "irritated. It seemed a waste, I suppose. To come so far. To cross the sea. To die for ... " He shrugs. "God knows why. — Hilary Mantel

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said. — Hilary Mantel

All colors of people mingle in the souks and squares. But they do not merge. — Hilary Mantel

People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh. — Hilary Mantel

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. — Hilary Mantel

This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon. — Hilary Mantel

We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it. — Hilary Mantel

Those who are made can be unmade. — Hilary Mantel

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel

I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything. — Hilary Mantel

God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation. — Hilary Mantel

In a generation everything can change. — Hilary Mantel

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to — Hilary Mantel

Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know. — Hilary Mantel

Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus! — Hilary Mantel

I was always desired. But now i am valued. And that is a different thing, i find. — Hilary Mantel

We are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. — Hilary Mantel

Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due. — Hilary Mantel

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells. — Hilary Mantel

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it. — Hilary Mantel

I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle. — Henriette Mantel

They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks. — Hilary Mantel

I have an Oscar on my mantel. — Irwin Winkler

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming. — Hilary Mantel

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. — Hilary Mantel

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel

By the hairy balls of Jesus — Hilary Mantel

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it. — Hilary Mantel

There is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it.
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But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
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The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel

There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word. — Hilary Mantel

Occam's Razor shaves you closer. — Hilary Mantel

God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut. — Hilary Mantel

We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles. — Hilary Mantel

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes. — Hilary Mantel

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true. — Hilary Mantel

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. — Hilary Mantel

He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged. — Hilary Mantel

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.' — Hilary Mantel

For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable. — Hilary Mantel

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old. — Hilary Mantel

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat.
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So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? — 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

The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ. — Hilary Mantel

Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead. — Hilary Mantel

And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear. — Hilary Mantel

Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife. When they have listened — Hilary Mantel

My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk. — Hilary Mantel

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. — Hilary Mantel

Fortitude ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you. — Hilary Mantel

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading. — Hilary Mantel

My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash. — Hilary Mantel

And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better. — Hilary Mantel

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel

A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident. — Hilary Mantel