Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed. - Robert Galbraith

Neither of them could tell who had made the first move, or whether they acted in unison. They were holding each other tightly before they knew what happened, Robin's chin on Strike's shoulder, his face in her hair. He smelled of sweat, beer and surgical spirits, she, of roses and the faint perfume that he had missed when she was no longer in the office. 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 year. Through the closed door upstairs the band playing on:

I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine ...

Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.

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