Elizabeth’s Reviews > Wolf Hall > Status Update

“The page of an accounts book is there for your use, like a love poem. It’s not there for you to nod and then dismiss it; it’s there to open your heart to possibility. It’s like the scriptures: it’s there for you to think about, and initiate action.”

The amount of content you could unpack and analyze from this one passage alone is MASTERFUL 😮‍💨🤌

“Wolsey was to me an enemy. That does not alter my feelings toward our Holy Mother the church.” He thinks, Wolsey was to me a father and a friend. That does not alter my feelings toward our Holy Mother the church.”

I am so sat for Cromwell’s revenge tour. LFG 👏

“He is crying. He says to himself, let George Cavendish not come by and see me, and write it down and make it into a play. He swears softly: in many languages: at life, at himself for giving way to its demands.”

The way this is side-splittingly funny (knowing the context of the play) and so completely heartbreaking and human all at once 😮‍💨🤌