Alina Bu

“The king never does an upleasent thing. Lord Cromwell does it for him.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“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 act 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

“Why is it always little legs that have to save big legs? Just run upstairs and fetch me .......
It flattered you, when you were young. You thought you were important, indeed essential. He used to hurtle around Putney, on errands for Walter. More fool him.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“Rafe shrugs. ‘He is frightened of you, sir. You have outgrown him. You have gone beyond what any servant or subject should be.’ It is the cardinal over again, he thinks. Wolsey was broken not for his failures, but for his successes; not for any error, but for grievances stored up, about how great he had become.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light