Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

by Robert Galbraith

‘De mortuis nil nisi bonum?’

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.’

I think marriage is nearly always an unfathomable entity, even to the people inside it,

‘You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it.’

‘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 any more, it’s who you are.