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  1. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    He was, in all, so clean, so sweet, so golden, that I backed off, afraid he must be American and about to convert me to some cult.
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  2. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.
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  3. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    in case the dead ones rolled in late.
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  4. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    I see that both the living and the dead commute, riding their familiar trains. I am not, as you will have gathered, a person who needs false excitement, or simulated innovation. I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.
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  5. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.
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  6. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    A shock will do it, he said, or strong emotion, strong emotion of any sort. It can be horror. Or disgust. But, then again, it doesn't have to be. Sometimes, he said, people die laughing."
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  7. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.
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  8. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead.
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  9. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    She held out her hands in a curve around herself, to show how emotion distends you. It makes you feel full up, a big weight in your chest, and then you don't want your dinner.
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  10. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    In the end, Dr Bhattacharya had said, the heart fails without warning.
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  11. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    I remembered the young man with his broad white smile and his ashen hair streaked with gold; the basted perfection of his firm flesh, and the grace of his hand clasping mine. I slotted the notes back inside, slid my purse away, and wondered: which of my defects did he notice first?
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  12. Hilary Mantel _ The Assassination of Margaret

    I felt a wish to be fictionalized.
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