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Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling

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  • Azahas quoted5 years ago
    render her vulnerable;
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    While his short-term prospects were immeasurably improved, the outlook remained uncertain.
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    that he was buckling under the responsibility of it, the demands it made, the appeals it attracted, the decisions it entailed; that he was much more overawed than glad.
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

    Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things

    Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    How easy it was to capitalise 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.
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    There was an air of joylessness in every news report he watched. The national debt was so huge that it was difficult to comprehend
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    I’m happy where I am. I just want to get on with work and be on my own for a bit
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    her secure place of retreat in the cloistered world in which she had grown up, whose values she simultaneously despised and espoused
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    if you don’t mind me speaking frankly
  • asasiprhas quoted6 years ago
    That’s not how I’d have phrased it, but bluntly, yes
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