249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

Yet Strike remained certain her flight to Ross had been self-immolation, done purely for spectacular effect, a Charlottian form of sati.

Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis.

No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid.

Had she learned how to compose her face into its most photogenic arrangement, to project emotion so beautifully? Or had she simply been a pellucid surface through which her feelings naturally shone?

It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.

In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De.

A lot of men find it hard to hear how well their other halves get on with other men.

Her family was at least as dysfunctional and peculiar as his own, riven with scenes that to other people might’ve been epoch defining – ‘it was a month before Daddy torched Mummy’s portrait in the hall, and the paneling caught fire, and the fire brigade came, and we all had to be evacuated via the upstairs windows’ – but to the Campbells were so normalized they seemed routine.