Mantels Direct Quotes & Sayings

These were the underdogs, the outsiders, the pariahs, the sinners of his system. But the reason he was so concerned about them was that he felt the quality and strength of his entire system of organization depended on how he treated them. If he treated the pariahs well he would have a good system. If he treated them badly he would have a weak one. — Robert M. Pirsig

The witch's words were cut off and Izzy stumbled back into the earth.
Izzy looked up at the dragoness standing over her. her grandmother smiled. "What did I miss? I sensed I was missing something!"
Rhiannon looked down at her claws, "Did I step in something? I feel like I stepped in something. — G.A. Aiken

If you know your ill-intentions, I resist your unhealthy-actions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within. — Anthony Liccione

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday. — Mary J. Blige

Rhys flipped back the lid. A note lay atop the golden metal of the book.
I read your letter. About the woman you love.
I believe you. And I believe in peace.
I believe in a better world.
If anyone asks, you stole this during the meeting.
Do not trust the others. The sixth queen was not ill. — Sarah J. Maas

[ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief? — Jan Kochanowski

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. — Raymond Carver

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. — John Desmond Bernal

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. — Haruki Murakami

Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform. — Ben Horowitz