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“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher