“He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.”Hilary Mantel book Wolf HallSource: Wolf Hall
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”Hilary Mantel Bring Up the BodiesSource: Bring Up the Bodies
“She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'""He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.”Hilary Mantel Bring Up the BodiesSource: Bring Up the Bodies
“You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.”Hilary Mantel Bring Up the BodiesSource: Bring Up the Bodies