“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness."
Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“Sometimes you found a way to mesh up for a little while, maybe even spin the same direction, as he and Lucy had. Other times you couldn't find a fit. Sometimes you were the most important past in the machine.
And sometimes it turned out you were obsolete.”
― The Water Knife
And sometimes it turned out you were obsolete.”
― The Water Knife
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
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