249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

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

Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality.

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.

This, he thought, was how women roped you in. They added you to lists and forced you to confirm and commit. They impressed upon you that if you didn’t show up a plate of hot food would go begging, a gold-backed chair would remain unoccupied, a cardboard place name would sit shamefully upon a table, announcing your rudeness to the world.

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.

Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.

Frankly, anybody who’s going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

Birthdays in Lucy’s world were always celebrated, never forgotten: there must be cake and candles and cards and presents; time must be marked, order preserved, traditions upheld.