The Casual Vacancy Quotes

#1. Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful.

J.K. Rowling

#2. In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

Slavoj Zizek

#3. We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

Otis Williams

#4. Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

J.K. Rowling

#6. What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

Lev Grossman

#7. Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly from Andrew to Fats; but Fats alone suspected that he needed Andrew more than Andrew needed him.

J.K. Rowling

#8. Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

Charlton Heston

#9. I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Kesha

#10. You're not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

J.K. Rowling

#11. You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed ... You need it.
Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing

J.K. Rowling

#12. It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

Lev Grossman

#13. Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

Gary Hopkins

#14. A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

Robert Pollack

#16. Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.

Jim Butcher

#17. Go wherever the facts lead.

Socrates

#18. You can't fight with who you are

Sajjad Ali Noor

#19. In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don't have to be sparing with it!

Louise Hay

#20. Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

J.K. Rowling

#21. Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

J.K. Rowling

#22. Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.

Lev Grossman