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Book: The Casual Vacancy
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  1. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
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  2. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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  3. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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  4. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Many years before, she had read, and recognized as true, the words of W. B. Yeats: 'A Pity beyond all telling is hit at the heart of love'. She had smiled over the poem, and stroked the page, because she had known both that she loved Colin, and that compassion formed a huge part of her love.
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  5. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
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  6. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
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  7. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
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  8. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
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  9. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
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  10. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not disguising the animal you happened to be.
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  11. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died,
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  12. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on first impressions, on single actions. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
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