“ How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so? ”
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
There are always loose ends in real life.
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind 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.
