Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

by Robert Galbraith

Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.

we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.’

I was aroused not only by the obviously sensual aspects, but by the sense of power. I felt I stole something of their essence from them, taking that which they thought private and hidden.’

Thoughts of a serial rapist and murderer..

‘Everyone wants a single, simple solution,’ he said, now finishing his last few chips. ‘One weird trick to lose belly fat. I’ve never clicked on it, but I understand the appeal.’

When you’re living a lie, nothing’s more threatening than people who tell the truth …

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”