Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies
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- Author: Hilary Mantel
- ASIN: B009P25MK2
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B009P25MK2
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Highlights
and he will be up when Westminster’s bells have rung in another wet, smoky, lightless April day. — location: 582
He never sees More – a star in another firmament, who acknowledges him with a grim nod – without wanting to ask him, what’s wrong with you? Or what’s wrong with me? — location: 689
Is it any wonder, John says, when you are into any mischief going, prone to giving back answers and always reliably to be found where you shouldn’t be? — location: 1821
See the what he says to Rafe about not being found where he shouldnt be the day Liz dies
He says, ‘Make marzipan lions – the cardinal wants them.’ — location: 1894
Ashes, dry bread. England was always, the cardinal says, a miserable country, home to an outcast and abandoned people, who are working slowly towards their deliverance, and who are visited by God with special tribulations. — location: 1996
When they have listened to all this, and they come out into the air, he feels strangely cold. He puts a hand to his face, touches his cheekbone. — location: 2331
The accumulation of repeated detail. This the cold cheekbone after he was kicked by Walter. Like crime and detection these motifs must be hidden like clues, via misdirection.
Halloween: the world’s edge seeps and bleeds. This is the time when the tally-keepers of Purgatory, its clerks and gaolers, listen in to the living, who are praying for the dead. — location: 2440
Exceptional writing - purgatory has just been introduced and wells up again, like an insistent chord.
Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. — location: 2493
This section is how you incorpofate research or reading the roof falling in is the point, as it seems to cromwell, not the art of memory.
Then Gregory says, his voice small as if he had receded into the past, ‘Do you remember that Christmas, when there was the giant in the pageant?’ ‘Here in the parish? I remember.’ ‘He said, “I am a giant, my name is Marlinspike.” They said he was as tall as the Cornhill maypole. What’s the Cornhill maypole?’ ‘They took it down. The year of the riots. Evil May Day, they called it. You were only a baby then.’ — location: 2698
He understands what Henry has learned from his cardinal: his floating diplomacy, his science of ambiguity. — location: 2925
Leases, writs, statutes, all are written to be read, and each person reads them by the light of — location: 3560
and CRs too.
Thomas Cromwell, who is increasingly where he shouldn’t be. — location: 3996
‘With the woman,’ Mary says. ‘The person. — location: 4468
of the long-handled irons must be well greased and hot. When you press the plates together there is an animal shriek as they meet, and steam hisses into the air. If you panic and release the pressure you will have a claggy mess to scrape away. — location: 5289
‘That song of his, “Pastime With Good Company.” When I hear it there is something inside me, like a little dog, that wants to howl. — location: 5407
Anne says, ‘I am Jezebel. You, Thomas Cromwell, are the priests of Baal.’ Her eyes are alight. ‘As I am a woman, I am the means by which sin enters this world. I am the devil’s gateway, the cursed ingress. I am the means by which Satan attacks the man, whom he was not bold enough to attack, except through me. Well, that is their view of the situation. My view is that there are too many priests with scant learning and smaller occupation. And I wish the Pope and the Emperor and all Spaniards were in the sea and drowned. And if anyone is to be thrown out of a palace window … — location: 5602
Here is where he says you don’t go to bed until the books balance. — location: 5623
He doesn’t want to lose More. He wants to please everybody. You know how it is. — location: 5665
‘Wolsey always said that the making of a treaty is the treaty. It doesn’t matter what the terms are, just that there are terms. It’s the goodwill that matters. When that runs out, the treaty is broken, whatever the terms say. — location: 6066
Two hours. Two kings. What do you know, Walter? He stands in the salty air, talking to his dead father. — location: 6337
sometimes it’s quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in the street and stamped on. — location: 6764
He is not a man like you, who just packs up his sins in his saddlebags and carries them from country to country, and when they grow too heavy whistles up a mule or two, and soon commands a train of them and a troop of muleteers. Henry may err, but he needs to be forgiven. — location: 7023
pragmatic getting hinge done or the eternity of Katherine and Frith