Lethal White
Robert Galbraith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.”
“Life had taught him that a great and powerful love could be felt for the most apparently unworthy people, a circumstance that ought, after all, to give everybody consolation.”
“It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.”
“How often were you aware, while it happened, that you were living an hour that would change the course of your life forever?”
“Because men’s crimes are always ours in the final analysis, aren’t they, Mr. Strike? Ultimate responsibility always lies with the woman, who should have stopped it, who should have acted, who must have known. Your failings are really our failings, aren’t they? Because the proper role of the woman is carer, and there’s nothing lower in this whole world than a bad mother.”
“The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for years.”
“It was four in the morning, the hopeless hour when shivering insomniacs inhabit a world of hollow shadow, and existence seems frail and strange.”
“You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it.”
“As suddenly as they had reached for each other, they broke apart. Tears were rolling down Robin's face. For one moment of madness, Strike yearned to say, “Come with me”, but there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten, and those, he knew, were some of them.”
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Book Keywords:
healing, friendship, longing, love, bravery, robin, strike, hugs, ptsd-recovery, strength
