The Ink Black Heart
Robert Galbraith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He experienced one of those moments of simultaneous confusion and clarity that belong to the drunk and the desperate.”
“Strike looked down at his own plate: where there should have been chips, there was only salad.”
“in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life’s course.”
“But as I’m not going around killing people I don’t like, I don’t think there’s much wrong with admitting some people contribute more to the world than others.’ ‘So you don’t subscribe to “any man’s death diminishes me”?’ said Robin. ‘I wouldn’t feel remotely diminished by the deaths of some of the bastards I’ve met.”
“The idea of suggesting that Strike stop lying to the women in his life occurred only to be dismissed, on the basis that the resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight and exercise were enough personal improvement to be getting on with.”
“She’s not big on achievements either: she says so on her tumblr page. Feeling guilty about not achieving stuff is the result of internalised capitalism, apparently.’ ‘Seriously?’ ‘Oh yeah. You never been to a communist country? Everyone lies on sofas all day while trained poodles bring them cake.”
“He was starting to feel like a truffle pig trying to do its job in a room full of incense, dead fish and strong cheese.”
“young Icelandic woman had tweeted at a member of the Brotherhood, pleading with him not to appropriate a symbol that had nothing whatsoever to do with white supremacy. His response had been to call her a n*****-loving cunt.”
“there’s nothing like Latin for slapping the fuck out of people who think they’re better than you. I’ve used it several times to good effect.”
“something he wanted to eat that might also plausibly support weight loss.”
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