How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.
...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.
We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.
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You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.
Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.
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There are always loose ends in real life.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.
You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity
It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.
Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories;