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“Experience had taught Strike that there was a certain type of woman to whom he was unusually attractive. Their common characteristics were intelligence and the flickering intensity of badly wired lamps.” (The Silkworm Quotes)
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“In the depths of his tiredness, surrounded by these blank, sheep-like visages, he found himself pondering the accidents that had brought all of them into being. Every birth was, viewed properly, mere chance. With a hundred million sperm swimming blindly through the darkness, the odds against a person becoming themselves were staggering.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody’s undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“One mellows almost without realizing it’s a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn’t enough to shake them out of it.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“She couldn’t understand a vocation. Some people can’t; at best, work’s about status and paychecks for them, it hasn’t got value in itself.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“Strike would have advised any friend to leave and not look back, but he had come to see her like a virus in his blood that he doubted he would ever eradicate; the best he could hope for was to control its symptoms.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“The argument had been in full swing when Matthew’s father telephoned with the news that a funny turn Matthew’s mother had suffered the previous week had been diagnosed as a mini-stroke. After this, she and Matthew felt that squabbling about Strike was in bad taste, so they went to bed in an unsatisfactory state of theoretical reconciliation, both, Robin knew, still seething. It was”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“The instantaneous shift from calm to calamity. The slowing of time. Every sense suddenly wire-taut and screaming.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
“You know, there’s pride, and then there’s stupidity”
J. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
