We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them… — Hilary Mantel
We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.
Bring Up the Bodies · 2012
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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.