Sultan

“Always a bit of delusion in love, isn't there? You fill in the blanks with your own imagination. Paint them exactly the way you want them to be.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

“No, but I’m saying… we’ve got to forgive who we were, when we didn’t know any better.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

“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

“And I swear to you, he looked murderous. He stepped right up to me, the way a man will when he wants to remind you what he could do, if he wanted.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood