Elanor

“[T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall