Robert Galbraith Quotes

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

You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.

Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality.

I am become a name.

When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.

Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.

You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it.

How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?

Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.

Then he closed his eyes, and like millions of his fellow humans, wondered why troubles could never come singly, but in avalanches, so that you became increasingly destabilized with every blow that hit you.

I’m totally serious. Look it up on the net. When women turn, they really turn.

Happiness is a choice that requires an effort at times, and it was well past time for him to make the effort.

For this to happen today, of all days! It felt like a wink from God.

People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn’t enough to shake them out of it.

"But people who fundamentally change are rare, in my experience, because it's bloody hard work compared to going on a march or waving a flag. Have we met a single person on this case who's radically different to the person they were forty years ago?"

"I don't know . . . I think I've changed," said Robin, then felt embarrassed to have said it out loud.

Strike looked at her without smiling for the space it took him to chew and swallow a chip, then said,

"Yeah. But you're exceptional, aren't you?"