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“One of the earliest and most vivid memories of Robins childhood was of the day that the family dog had been put down. She herself had been too young to understand what her father was saying; she to...”
“He had called what he felt for Charlotte love and it remained the most profound feeling he had had for any woman. In the pain it had caused him and its lasting after-effects it had more resembled a...”
“He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew intereste...”
“He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes some...”
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.”
“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”
“Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?”
“There's pride and then there's stupidity.”
“I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.”
“Can I ask who you are, sir?""Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police jus...”
“Im. The monosyllable was heavy with contempt. Es a twat.Is he?Yeah, e is. Ask Kieran.She gave the impression that she and Kieran stood together, sane, dispassionate observers of the idiots populati...”
“...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.”
“You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike”
“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”
“..it is hard to throw off long-established love;Hard, but this you must manage somehow..”
“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
“Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back h...”
“For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered to...”
“The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without questio...”
“Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling, towards the void beyond the lethal staircase.”
