Swati

“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

“Singles are envious of those who are married, and married couples envy those with children, but people with children are envious of singles. It’s an endless merry-go-round. But isn’t that funny? That each person should be chasing the tail of the person in front of them, when no one is coming first or last. In other words, when it comes to happiness nothing is better or worse – there is no definitive state.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“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

“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