Tell me, why do you think I do this?" The king sounds curious. "Out of lust? Is that what you think?"
Kill a cardinal? Divide your country? Split the church? 'Seems extravagant,' Chapuys murmurs.
...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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...I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?
Hilary MantelTag: rearing
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 MantelSome of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Hilary MantelTag: reading books stories read fiction story book
Rumours crop in the short summer nights. Dawn finds them like mushrooms
in the damp grass. Members of Thomas Cromwell's household have been seeking a midwife in the small hours of the morning. He is hiding a woman at some country house of his, a foreign woman who has given him a daughter.
Whatever you do, he says to Rafe, don't defend my honour. I have women like that all over the place.
They will believe it, Rafe says. The word in the city is that Thomas Cromwell has a prodigious…
Memory, he says. I have a very large ledger. A huge filing system, in which are recorded (under their name, and also under their offence) the details of people who have cut across me.
Tag: humour
He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.
Hilary Mantel[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
Hilary MantelAccount books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.
Hilary MantelTag: history
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