Laura Bourne

“I found an easier way to be.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Near Victoria, for example, you can find the Queen Mother Sports Centre. Whatever the qualities that particular royal might have had, exuberant attraction to physical sports was not one of them.”
― Norman Baker, … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know

“Cavendish jolts up, riding knee-to-knee. ‘His reliquary!’ George is upset, astonished. ‘To part with it like this! It is a piece of the true Cross!’ ‘We'll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St Peter's thumbprint, to say they're genuine.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Any variation from unbending rigidity may open the door to reform.”
― Norman Baker, … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know