Dorothy Van Daele

“Nothing hurts, or perhaps it’s that everything hurts, because there is no separate pain that he can pick out.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Why does everything you know, and everything you’ve learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

“When he wakes he has to learn the lack of her all over again”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall