I think there are a lot of nutters in the world, and the less we reward them for their nuttery, the better for all of us. - Robert Galbraith

He experienced one of those moments of simultaneous confusion and clarity that belong to the drunk and the desperate.

I was in therapy for a bit. Now I do CBT exercises.” “Do you, though?” Strike asked mildly. “Because I bought vegetarian bacon a week ago, but it’s not making me any healthier, just sitting there in the fridge.

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