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Troubled Blood
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“Doctors know things, don’t they? In and out of people’s houses, having confidential consultations. They’re like priests. They hear secrets.” (Troubled Blood Quotes)

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood
Troubled Blood Quotes

“Even the cleverest people can be bloody stupid when it comes to their love lives. In fact, I sometimes think, the cleverer they are with books, the stupider they are with sex.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Even though he’d been craving solitude for the past ten days, the prospect of his silent attic room was cheerless, after these long days of dread and loss.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Everyday things became so strange, when you were waiting for something dreadful to happen. Her heart was pounding fast.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Folklore and superstition haven’t gone away. They’ll never go away. People need them. I think a purely scientific world would be a cold place.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“How very mysterious human beings were, even to those who thought they knew them best. Infidelity and bigamy, kinks and fetishes, theft and fraud, stalking and harassment: she’d now delved into so many secret lives she’d lost count.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood
Troubled Blood Quotes

“I think there are a lot of nutters in the world, and the less we reward them for their nuttery, the better for all of us.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“I was thirty-five. It’s a funny age. It starts dawning on you forty’s really gonna happen to you, not just to other people.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“I’ve always been clever, but that don’t help a woman. It’s better to be pretty. You have a better life if you’re good-looking.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Life’s taught me things can always get worse than they are. I thought I had it hard, then they wheeled a bloke onto the ward who’d had both his legs and his genitals blown off.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Nevertheless, there was a kind of relief in admitting the painful truth: she cared deeply for her partner.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood
Troubled Blood Quotes

“One thing life’s taught me: where there’s no capacity for joy, there’s no capacity for goodness.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“People who insist on opening cans of worms, shouldn’t complain when they get covered in slime.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Priests and doctors, it’s hardwired in most of us to trust them, don’t you think? Don’t you think we tend to invest some categories of people with unearned goodness? I suppose we’ve all got a need to trust people who seem to have power over life and death.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“She felt as though she’d suddenly been transported from the distant past into a brash and indifferent present.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“She was the unique woman in his life who’d never tried to change.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Strike missed the absence of an overriding objective, in pursuit of which he could shelve his sadness; missed the imperative to dismiss pain and distress in the service of something greater, which had sustained him in the military.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“That’s the trouble with friends you’ve had for decades, isn’t it? They know too much.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“The memory of him telling her she was his best friend caused a little spurt of happiness every time she returned to it.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“The older I’ve grown, the more I’ve realized that the team is everything. Qualifications and experience are important, but if the team doesn’t gel forget it! You’ll never achieve what you should.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Then he closed his eyes, and like millions of his fellow humans, wondered why troubles could never come singly, but in avalanches, so that you became increasingly destabilized with every blow that hit you.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“There’s no guarantee breeding two shits together will produce a third shit. I’ve known decent people who were raised by complete bastards, and vice versa.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“They don’t disappear, the dead. It’d be easier if they did. I can see her so clearly. If she walked up those steps now, part of me wouldn’t be surprised. She was such a vivid person.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Well, I think there’s a kind of poetry to astrology. I’m not saying it works, but there’s a kind of – of symmetry to it, an order. It makes a kind of – not literal sense, but it’s survived for a reason. I think it makes you feel less lonely. Astrology connects you to the universe, doesn’t it?”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

“Why’re there people like me at all, Cormoran? Why’s evolution let it happen? Because humans are so highly developed, we can only thin ourselves out with intraspecies predators. Pick off the weak, the morally depraved. It’s a good thing that degenerate, drunk women don’t breed. That’s just a fact, it’s a fact.”

J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Troubled Blood

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