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

Because men’s crimes are always ours in the final analysis, aren’t they, Mr. Strike? Ultimate responsibility always lies with the woman, who should have stopped it, who should have acted, who must have known. Your failings are really our failings, aren’t they? Because the proper role of the woman is carer, and there’s nothing lower in this whole world than a bad mother.

He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.

It’s dangerous to make a cult of your own unhappiness. Hard to get out, once you’ve been in there too long. You forget how.