“More pre-Christmas revelers on the Friday-night Tube: girls in ludicrously tiny glittering dresses risking hypothermia for a fumble with the boy from… — Robert Galbraith Girls Copy Share Image
“Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?” — Robert Galbraith Dice Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing of so infinite vexation As man’s own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil” — Robert Galbraith Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for… — Robert Galbraith Desperate Copy Share Image
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.” — Robert Galbraith Feminism Copy Share Image
“Bestigui’s statement presented the unassailable front of a rock face without crampons.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Intuition, they called it, but Strike knew it to be the reading of subtle signs, the subconscious joining of dots.” — Robert Galbraith Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?” — Robert Galbraith Choice Copy Share Image
“He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the… — Robert Galbraith Crime Copy Share Image
“Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he… — Robert Galbraith Achievements Copy Share Image
“He’s a writer,” she said, as though this explained everything. “He’s disappeared before?” “He’s emotional,” she said, her expression glum. “He’s always… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“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… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“…difficile est longum subito deponere amoren, difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias… …it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard,… — Robert Galbraith Love Copy Share Image
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear… — Robert Galbraith Blind faith Copy Share Image
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.… — Robert Galbraith Books Copy Share Image
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman’s; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it… — Robert Galbraith Humor Copy Share Image
“Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“will you turn on the radio? I fancy a bit of music,” she said. “Louder than that, sweetie. Oh, I love this.”… — Robert Galbraith Music Copy Share Image
“Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories;” — Robert Galbraith Memories Copy Share Image
“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2” — Robert Galbraith Books Copy Share Image
“it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow…” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.” — Robert Galbraith Suicide Copy Share Image
“so he sat smoking on the sofa with the lower trouser leg hanging empty towards the floor, lost in thought.” — Robert Galbraith Cigarette Copy Share Image
“And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring yuh name.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we… — Robert Galbraith Writer Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.” — Robert Galbraith Irony Copy Share Image
“He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless… — Robert Galbraith Heart Copy Share Image
“He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“He knew that his personal tipping point was drawing nearer; that moment by which, unless he left, he would find it too… — Robert Galbraith Mind Copy Share Image
“One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.” — Robert Galbraith Anger Copy Share Image
“Strike teringat kata Adler, "Kebohongan tidak akan masuk akal, kecuali kebenaran mengandung bahaya yang setara.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Like other inveterate womanizers Strike had encountered, Duffield’s voice and mannerisms were slightly camp. Perhaps such men became feminized by prolonged immersion… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought… — Robert Galbraith Bizarre Copy Share Image
“Owen liked me,” Waldegrave told Strike. “Oh yeah. I knew how to handle him. Stoke that man’s vanity and you could get… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted.… — Robert Galbraith Depression Copy Share Image
“Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
