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“All she had left of her old life and her old uncertainties was attacking familiar targets.” (The Casual Vacancy Quotes)
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people’s love lives.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“When she tallied kindness she subtracted abandonment.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
“You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.”
J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
