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“A lot of men find it hard to hear how well their other halves get on with other men.” (Career of Evil Quotes)
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Everyone liked Robin. He liked Robin. How could he fail to like her, after everything they had been through together? However, from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further. A distance must be maintained. Barriers must remain in place.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“He would never know what it was like to feel yourself small, weak and powerless. He would never understand what rape did to your feelings about your own body: to find yourself reduced to a thing, an object, a piece of fuckable meat.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don’t they? They’ve been brainwashed to believe there’s no alternative.” I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Men looked so tragic when they cried.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Nobody who had not lived there would ever understand that London was a country unto itself. They might resent it for the fact that it held more power and money than any other British city, but they could not understand that poverty carried its own flavour there, where everything cost more, where the relentless distinctions between those who had succeeded and those who had not were constantly, painfully visible.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Psychology’s loss,” said Strike, “is private detection’s gain.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“She thought it might be the very first time that Strike had ever given any indication that he saw her as a woman, and she silently filed away the exchange to pore over later, in solitude.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“The detective seemed to remember reading that advertisers used Scottish accents to suggest integrity and honesty.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“The story, like all the best stories, split like an amoeba, forming an endless series of new stories and opinion pieces and speculative articles, each spawning its own counter chorus.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
“You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it,”
J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil
