The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for years. - Robert Galbraith

How often were you aware, while it happened, that you were living an hour that would change the course of your life forever?

Strike had never wanted children; it was one of the things on which he and Charlotte had always agreed, and it had been one of the reasons other relationships over the years had foundered. Lucy deplored his attitude, and the reasons he gave for it; she was always miffed when he stated life aims that differed from hers, as though he were attacking her decisions and choices.

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