Robert Galbraith Quotes

We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.

Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.

There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring yuh name.

... cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.

Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.

"Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing."

You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

"I do," said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor.

Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.

Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after — you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.

Lightning doesn't strike twice.