Suzanne Bhargava

“If you come into a room and say, this is what we're not talking about, it follows that you're talking about nothing else.”
― Hilary Mantel

“The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall