Hilary Mantel, A Place Of Greater Safety Quotes

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye, " he said. "Georges-Jacques--study law. Law is a weapon.

I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

The prose, ” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.