Swati

“He considered asking the woman what manner of key she sought so he might help her look but he knew how difficult it was to describe a key. To find a key you had to understand the lock.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“he had an innate dislike of scheduled celebration and forced jollity, and of all inane practices, having ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to him was one of his least favourites”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“And he wasn’t the marrying kind. No matter the inconveniences, what he craved at the end of a working day was his private space, clean and ordered, organised exactly as he liked it, free of emotional storms, from guilt and recriminations, from demands to service Hallmark’s idea of romance, from a life where someone else’s happiness was his responsibility.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“There’s no pride in having what you never worked for. Never let the other chap change your game plan. Stick to your own, and play to your strengths.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man