[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
Hilary MantelIn terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
Hilary MantelThe things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
Hilary Mantel