"The Casual Vacancy" Quotes
When a local council member dies, the seemingly idyllic small town of Pagford is torn apart by the ensuing political and personal conflicts.
fiction | 503 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac. Love is all very well, but in the end, the purse must be satisfied.
The mistakes we make are not the actions of an evil man.
She felt as though a great many people had trodden over her grave.
Everyone knows the world is full of stupid people. But do we have to take it for granted that they all have the right to vote?
You’re not as good as you think you are.
People are obsessed with what other people are doing.
She had been very stupid, and she knew it.
The best way to be in a small town is to have been born in it. Otherwise you must adapt and learn to live by its mores.
She had thought about taking her own life, but she had not thought about her death.
It was the suddenness of it that upset her most, the way the dead could be there one minute and gone the next.
