Quotes by : Hilary Mantel

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual....

To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching....

Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal....

Those who are made can be unmade.

He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a....

Fabre stood up. He placed his fingertips on d‘Anton’s temples. “Put your fingers here,” he said.....

Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye," he said. "Georges-Jacques--study law. Law is a....

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern,....

He knows different now. It's the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from....

In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances....