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01Undated

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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02Undated

He had called what he felt for Charlotte love and it remained the most profound feeling he had had for any woman. In the pain it had caused him and its lasting after-effects it had more resembled a virus that, even now, he was not He had called what he felt for Charlotte love and it remained the most profound feeling he had had for any woman. In the pain it had caused him and its lasting after-effects it had more resembled a virus that, even now, he was not.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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03Undated

He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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04Undated

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.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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05Undated

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

Robert Galbraith / quote

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06Undated

Can I ask who you are, sir?""Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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07Undated

Im.’ The monosyllable was heavy with contempt. ‘’E’s a twat.’‘Is he?’‘Yeah, ’e is. Ask Kieran.’She gave the impression that she and Kieran stood together, sane, dispassionate observers of the idiots populating Lula’s world.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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08Undated

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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09Undated

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

Robert Galbraith / quote

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10Undated

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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11Undated

..it is hard to throw off long-established love;Hard, but this you must manage somehow..

Robert Galbraith / quote

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12Undated

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

Robert Galbraith / quote

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13Undated

For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered towards Hazlitt's Hotel. She was tall enough to hold easily. He had never fancied very small

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14Undated

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

Robert Galbraith / quote

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15Undated

The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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16Undated

Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling, towards the void beyond the lethal staircase.

Robert Galbraith / quote

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17Undated

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to ‘ninety k’ and ‘a quarter of a mill’, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

Robert Galbraith / quote

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