Hilary Mantel Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

• History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

  Hilary Mantel

  History, Giving, Events

  "Booker winner Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

• God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Heart, Giving, Flesh

  "Fictional character: Thomas Cromwell". "Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2012.

• I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

  Hilary Mantel

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: newrepublic.com

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