Giosué

“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

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

“Were you ever at the cathedral in Chartres? You walk the labyrinth,” he says, “set into the pavement, and it seems there is no sense in it. But if you follow it faithfully it leads you straight to the center. Straight to where you should be.”
― 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