A Change of Climate Quotes

“Interesting how our vocabulary responds, providing us with words we have never needed before, words stacked away for us, neatly folded into our brain and there for our use: like a bride's lifetime supply of linen, or a ducal trove of monogrammed china. Death will overtake us before a fraction of those words are used.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“Forgetting is an art like other arts. It needs dedication and practice.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“It is in the nature of betrayal, she thought, that it not only changes the present, but that it reaches back with its dirty hands and changes the past.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“But the grief waited in the thickets of daily life, in unoccupied hours, ready to bludgeon her again, to drag her down:”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“Don’t expect joy. Survival, that’s all—survival should be the ambition.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“Joy,” Emma said. She smiled her twisted smile. “A word to be kept for Christmas carols, don’t you think, Ralph? Don’t expect joy. Survival, that’s all—survival should be the ambition.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“People are very ignorant and cruel, and they won’t accept mental suffering as an excuse to avoid anything. They say, “Pull yourself together.”
― Hilary Mantel , A Change of Climate

“Try to work on the scale of eternity. Do you see? Otherwise you will be fettered by trivia. The daily frustrations will cripple you.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate

“appurtenances,”
― Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate: A Novel