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The Casual Vacancy

A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what l

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“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: Refusal, Denial, Love, heart, Awareness

“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: Heart And Mind, Love, Want, Acceptance, Intellect

“You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: Selfish, Exception, Alone

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-hatred, Ashamed, pretending

“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”

— J.K Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Panic, Isolation, Life

“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”

— J.K Rowling, amazon.com

Tagged: Choice, Possibility, Life, Direction, one perfect sentence