Quotes from Robert Galbraith

and in spite of everything he was going through, she too was tired, she too had personal worries, and would have appreciated just a little effort.

The difficulty of merging two lives, of waiting for the soulmate who never arrived, of craving both freedom and love.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime – Mineko Iwasaki

but I've never been much for faking feelings or maintaining polite fictions to suit public celebrations.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever – Sylvia Plath

Bestigui's statement presented the unassailable front of a rock face without crampons.

Both were ordering cocktails and looked delighted to be in each other's company. For a few seconds Robin suddenly wondered whether she'd ever again feel as they did.

A rock through a window never comes with a kiss. Blue Öyster Cult, "Madness to the Method

I've always been clever . . . but that don't 'elp a woman. It's better to be pretty. You 'ave a better life when you're good-looking. Men always went for Irene, not me. She talked shit all night long, but they liked 'er better. I wasn't bad-looking . . . I just didn't 'ave what men liked.

Robin wondered how aware men were of the power dynamics that played out between them, while women stood watching.

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. This

a man with as dirty a record as his!… This is the sort of man that poses as a leader of the people! And successfully, too! Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

The man was half-insane . . . I saw then what living with something like this could do to you. The obsession had taken over his entire life.

in literature. Neither of them minded women

All well bred persons lie—Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think… William Congreve, Love for Love Strike's

how very small London was once you reached a certain altitude; once you had left behind those who could not easily secure tables at the best restaurants and clubs. 'Couldn't

But if I can cheat my heart with the old comfort, that love can be forgotten, is it not better?

Felicità perfetta non esiste.

Strike had not been able to think of a better course of action, given that he intended to stay until he had spoken to Robin again, than continuing to drink.

Yes please," Strike said, on the principle that all friendly gestures should be accepted in such situations.

Demam macam apakah ini, kenapa orang ingin sekali unjuk diri dalam bentuk tertulis?

Wittingly or not, Cynthia's laughter imposed a sort of obligation: smile back or seem hostile. Robin remembered a documentary on monkeys she had watched one night when she was too tired to get up and go to bed: chimps, too, laughed back at each other to signal social cohesion.

We subscribe to the Viking ideals of strength, solidarity and brotherhood. We live by the laws and maxims laid down in the Hávamál. We believe that feminism and the legalisation of homosexuality have disastrously undermined both the traditional family and wider society. We believe that multiculturalism has failed.

She now understood the potencial for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion