Robert Galbraith > Quotes

“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“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.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.”
― Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

“Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“There are always loose ends in real life.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories;”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring yuh name.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“... cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“Happiness is a choice that requires an effort at times, and it was well past time for him to make the effort.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

“Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“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.”
― Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

“Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling