Christine

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

“Robin felt her luck, these days, at having two loving parents. Her work had taught her how many people weren’t that fortunate, how many people had families that were broken beyond repair, how many adults walked around carrying invisible scars from their earliest childhood, their perceptions and associations forever altered by lack of love, by violence, by cruelty.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

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

“There were real advantages to having a father who didn’t care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure