Quotes from Robert Galbraith

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

She was a careless, fearless girl… Kindhearted in the main, But somewhat heedless with her tongue, And apt at causing pain.

acuérdate de que a los chiflados siempre les atraen los asesinatos y los casos de personas desaparecidas

Yo siempre digo que, si una chica vive con un hombre sin estar casados, es que lo quiere de verdad —repuso Satchwell—. Porque no hay nada que la retenga, sólo sus sentimientos, ¿no es así?

Do the job and do it well.

She locked the bathroom door and sat down on the floor in the loose T-shirt she had worn to bed, focusing on her breathing, on the feel of the cool tiles beneath her bare legs, observing, as she had been taught, the rapid beating of her heart, the adrenaline jolting through her veins, not fighting her panic, but watching it. After a while, she consciously noticed the faint smell of the lavender body wash she had used last night, and heard the distant passing of an airplane.

The silence had that slack quality that speaks only of the indifference of uninhabited rooms,

He is strangely attractive, isn't he? Bit beaten-up-looking, but I've never minded that.

Social workers work Saturdays as well as detectives, I see." "People don't stop needing help at weekends," she said drily.

too onerous to go, to readjust to civilian life. The army shaped you, almost imperceptibly, with the years; wore you into a surface conformity that made it easier to be swept along by the tidal force of

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

Biros mostly. Whatever's around."' Waldegrave

Let's try again.' But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the ugly wreck of the past lay revealed again, its shadow lying darkly over everything they tried to rebuild.

I'm so full of drugs I cant feel anything but I know I love you. I wonder how much they'd have to give me before that went too. Engouh to kill me I suppose.

Katya had given Mr Blay to understand that he could turn up at any hour of the day or night and he took full and regular advantage of the offer.

es difícil abandonar de pronto un amor duradero: es difícil, pero debes hacerlo como sea...»

Rudeness isn't funny.' 'It bloody is,' said the first twin, to the raucous laughter of the second.

screwing his eyes up against his own smoke. A shaft of wintry sunlight burst through a break in the clouds and illuminated the

Id rather die than have more. Actually I'd rather die than most things. But you know that about me. Will I ever see you again? You could come and see me here. Today I imagined you walking in, like I did when your leg. I imagined you telling them to let me go because you loved me and you'd look after me. I cried . . .

Least said, soonest mended,' she always says. That and 'least seen, most admired.

Los recuerdos se erguían para morderlo, como si hubiera pisado un nido de serpientes dormidas.

Look me in the eye and tell me you've loved anyone, since, like you loved me." "No I haven't," he said, "and thank fuck for that.

there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten...

At least you didn't punch her," said Robin. "In her wheelchair. In front of all the art lovers." Strike began to laugh.