“In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.” — Robert Galbraith Inspirational Copy Share Image
“A vast unfocused rage rose in her, against men who considered displays of emotion a delicious open door” — Robert Galbraith Anger 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
“Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody’s undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel… — Robert Galbraith Focus 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
“She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she… — Robert Galbraith Depression Copy Share Image
“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during… — Robert Galbraith Authors Copy Share Image
“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.” — Robert Galbraith Impulse Copy Share Image
“Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things” — Robert Galbraith Learning Copy Share Image
“Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?” — Robert Galbraith Fate Copy Share Image
“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.” — Robert Galbraith Books Copy Share Image
“Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling,… — Robert Galbraith Writing-craft 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
“He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Yet here she sat on the sofa, working rather than dealing with the subject that seemed to fill the small flat, pressing… — Robert Galbraith 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 Marriage 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
“He would never know what it was like to feel yourself small, weak and powerless. He would never understand what rape did… — Robert Galbraith Rape Copy Share Image
“Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he… — Robert Galbraith Family Copy Share Image
“Judging by the lopsided way she was hunched, with one hand buried deep under the lapel of her coat, Strike deduced that… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“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 Humor Copy Share Image
