Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

by Robert Galbraith

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.

These small matters of trust were often powerful indicators of the strength of a relationship.

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.”