249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

In essence, we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

How often were you aware, while it happened, that you were living an hour that would change the course of your life forever?

We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.

Now the sound of her voice, and her laughter, acted on him as it usually did, by making everything seem fractionally less awful.

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.

Men looked so tragic when they cried.

Kairos moment. An’ it means,” and from somewhere in his soused brain he dredged up words of surprising clarity, “the telling moment. The special moment. The supreme moment.

He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.

My fees are negotiable,’ said Strike, ‘if I like the client.’ He followed Leonora Quine into his office and closed the door behind him with a snap.