Hilary Mantel Quotes

He Finds He Cannot Think Of The Dying Men At All. Into His Mind Instead Strays The Picture Of More On The Scaffold, Seen Through The Veil Of Rain: His Body, Already Dead, Folding Back Neatly From The Impact Of The Axe. The Cardinal When He Fell Had No Persecutor More Relentless Than Thomas More. Yet, He Thinks, I Did Not Hate Him. I Exercised My Skills To The Utmost To Persuade Him To Reconcile With The King. And I Thought I Would Win Him, I Really Thought I Would, For He Was Tenacious Of The World, Tenacious Of His Person, And Had A Good Deal To Live For. In The End He Was His Own Murderer. He Wrote And Wrote And He Talked And Talked, Then Suddenly At A Stroke He Cancelled Himself. If Ever A Man Came Close To Beheading Himself, Thomas More Was That Man.

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