Elanor

“Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“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

“Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall