Laura Bourne

“For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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

“And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. “It’s better,” Jackie replied, “than freezing there.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“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