249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

Popularity’s overrated.

It’s like you’re traveling in a different direction to the rest of us.

We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.

Experience had taught Strike that there was a certain type of woman to whom he was unusually attractive. Their common characteristics were intelligence and the flickering intensity of badly wired lamps.

You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

Nevertheless, there was a kind of relief in admitting the painful truth: she cared deeply for her partner.

It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films.

I do,” said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor.