Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

by Robert Galbraith

Whether this was because Charlotte had stunted his capacity to feel so intensely, or because Lorelei lacked some essential magic, he did not know.

all were connected, forming a kind of web that constituted a hostile habitat for outsiders.

Rarely did these web-dwellers leave to seek companionship or love among the rest of society.

This was the trick of the therapist: let the pause unspool; let the more vulnerable person fill it.