J.k. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

Quotes

• “She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animati...”
• “You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever y...”
• “The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying a...”
• “She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single p...”
• “Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed...”
• “Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”