Hilary Mantel - There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that...

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing. Hilary Mantel

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feeling power reserve drives bone shiver sense shaft axe hand strike choose hold back blow feel inside resonance omitted thing

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