Giosué

“A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes:”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“He looks down at them and arranges his face. Erasmus says that you must do this each morning before you leave your house: “put on a mask, as it were.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Everything from the brim of this hat to the hem of her dress was too complex for Daniel’s eye to comprehend—he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible—but”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver