Quotes from Robert Galbraith

Strike had felt a variety of emotions which included guilt, gratitude, confusion, fear, rage, resentment and loneliness, but he couldn't remember feeling lucky. "Lucky" would have been the bomb not detonating. "Lucky" would have meant still having both his legs. "Lucky" was what people who couldn't bear to contemplate horrors needed to hear maimed and terrorized survivors call themselves.

incredible. Life had taught him that a great and powerful love could be felt for the most apparently unworthy people, a circumstance that ought, after all, to give everybody consolation.

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. Strike

The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name… Helen Murphy Hunt Danger

that a fit woman might make the journey on foot

The game can't have been created as a means of driving Ledwell to suicide, because – well, why would it? The game was surely done out of love for the cartoon.

Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry—he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood—or for some darker reason.

He knew some of the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder and she had now survived two near-fatal attacks. In the immediate aftermath of losing half his leg in Afghanistan, he, too, had experienced dissociation, finding himself suddenly and abruptly removed from his present surroundings to those few seconds of acute foreboding and terror that had preceded the disintegration of the Viking in which he had been sitting, and of his body and military career.

Anyone pointing out pitfalls or difficulties is scaremongering. Experts don't know anything. Facts lie.

She was moving in circles where she felt alone.

Aun así, él no sabía hacer las cosas de otra manera; eso formaba parte de un código ético personal, breve pero inflexible, que lo había acompañado a lo largo de toda su vida adulta y que podía resumirse en una frase: «Haz el trabajo y hazlo bien.»

A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

They were separated by infinite disparities, by the lotteries of birth and chance, by faults of judgement and lucky breaks.

mythomania, her need to provoke, to taunt, to test.

Speak so that I can understand you.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,

Attempting to make up with Charlotte before every last ounce of her fury had been spent had been like trying to rebuild a house during an earthquake.

In spite of the matted hair, the sunken, yellowing face, in spite of the fact that he repulsed her, she could yet feel the strange, manic aura of him, a magnetic pull like the reek of carrion. He woke the urge to investigate provoked by all dirty, rotten things, no less powerful because it was shameful.

Why the fuck, he asked himself, as he limped towards Mile End Park the following morning, was he, the senior partner and founder of the firm, having to stake out a protest march on a hot Saturday morning, when he had three employees and a knackered leg?

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

David Shelley, mi incomparable editor, seguidor incondicional y un INFJ,3 como yo.

But the lies she told were woven into the fabric of her being, her life; so that to live with her and love her was to become slowly enmeshed by them, to wrestle her for the truth, to struggle to maintain a foothold on reality. How

because it was so much more comforting to believe that language alone could remake the world.

His local's the White Horse in East Ham. Think he's a Hammers fan.' 'Could be worse,' said Barclay, who was speaking quietly, as he had just got the teething baby to sleep. 'Could be Chelsea.