it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’

Strike thought of his own bizarre family history.

‘Probably,’ he said.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: family history bizarre siblings supermodel



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Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: sense instinct impulse



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Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: fate fortune



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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.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: life jofer



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How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: death jofer



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He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: fans jofer really-jo-really



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Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.

Robert Galbraith


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Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: money psychology attractiveness relationship partners human-behaviour



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Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity could describe the exquisite pleasure she actually felt at the thought of her own comparative paradise.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: fortune love-life



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Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.

Robert Galbraith

Stichwörter: achievements peers



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