Fromanothershore

“Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“I picked up a snake once. In Italy."
"Why did you do that?"
"For a bet."
"Was it poisonous?"
"We didn't know. That was the point of the bet."
"Did it bite you?"
"Of course."
"Why of course?"
"It wouldn't be much of a story, would it? If I'd put it down unharmed, and away it slid?”
― 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

“There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall