249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

But people who fundamentally change are rare, in my experience, because it's bloody hard work compared to going on a march or waving a flag. Have we met a single person on this case who's radically different to the person they were forty years ago?""I don't know . . . I think I've changed," said Robin, then felt embarrassed to have said it out loud.Strike looked at her without smiling for the space it took him to chew and swallow a chip, then said,"Yeah. But you're exceptional, aren't you?

How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

There are always loose ends in real life.

Id rather die than have more. Actually I'd rather die than most things. But you know that about me. Will I ever see you again? You could come and see me here. Today I imagined you walking in, like I did when your leg. I imagined you telling them to let me go because you loved me and you'd look after me. I cried . . .

Happy birthday, this isn't your real present,you'll get that later. (Not flowers)Love Strike x

Thanks for the balloon donkey. Perfect timing. My old one's nearly deflated.She received an answer sixty seconds later.Great. I was worried it was so obvious, everybody would've got you one. See you at 5.Light-hearted now, Robin drank tea, ate her toast and returned downstairs to open her family's presents.

She'd washed her hands in the bathroom, but they were still damp, because she'd been in such a hurry to get back to Strike.

. . . she'd seen a flicker of something in his face that wasn't mere friendship, and they'd hugged, and she'd felt . . . Best not to dwell on that hug, on how like home it had felt, on how a kind of insanity had gripped her at that moment, and she'd imagined him saying 'come with me' and known she'd have gone if he had.

Mostly Strike was savoring the pleasure it had given him to hear Robin return his declaration of affection.