249 Quotes by Robert Galbraith

As suddenly as they had reached for each other, they broke apart. Tears were rolling down Robin's face. For one moment of madness, Strike yearned to say, “Come with me”, but there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten, and those, he knew, were some of them.

He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted lives.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories;

Robin was thinking, is this where single people end up, people without children to look out for them, without double incomes? In small boxes, living vicariously through reality stars?

Both were ordering cocktails and looked delighted to be in each other's company. For a few seconds Robin suddenly wondered whether she'd ever again feel as they did.

I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.

Nutters love murder.

Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike