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“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious acts and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“They have been witnessing miracles at Thetford for three hundred years, ever since they turned up a cache of relics, neatly labelled, that included rocks from Mount Calvary, part of Our Lady’s sepulchre, and fragments of the manger in which the child Jesus was laid. Now comes the greatest miracle of all, Thomas Cromwell, the Putney boy: who holds that the passage of time does not add lustre to fakes, and that there is no need to reverence a lie because of its antiquity.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“If a man should live as if every day is his last, he should also die as if there is a day to come, and another after that.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“somehow, everybody is poorer except the priests.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light