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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.” (The Cuckoo’s Calling Quotes)
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“A marked desire to be considered more than he felt himself to be; to become endowed, in fact, with that unpredictable, dangerous and transformative quality: fame.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“A pause. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“But the lies she told were woven into the fabric of her being, her life; so that to live with her and love her was to become slowly enmeshed by them, to wrestle her for the truth, to struggle to maintain foothold on reality.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Handsome in the manner of an Aryan prince, possessor of a trust fund, born to fulfill a preordained place in his family and the world; a man with all the confidence twelve generations of well-documented lineage can give.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“It’s that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You’re not fucking Byron.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Lucy’s idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Ridiculous,” he said breathlessly. “You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“She lay dying, wrapped in invisible robes of martyrdom, presenting her helplessness and passivity to him like adornments, and his dominant feeling was distaste.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Skirting the rubble and wreckage of the street at the foot of Center Point, he marched past a gigantic gold statue of Freddie Mercury that stood over the entrance of the Dominion Theatre across the road, head bowed, one fist raised in the air, like some pagan god of chaos.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield’s air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. Strike had felt the living woman behind the words she had written to friends; he had heard her voice on a telephone held to his ear; but now, looking down on the last thing she had ever seen in her life, he felt strangely close to her.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring yuh name.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
“When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.”
J. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling
