The Hallmarked Man Quotes

“There’s no pride in having what you never worked for. Never let the other chap change your game plan. Stick to your own, and play to your strengths.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow is a fresh opportunity to make it better.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“all women know a rape victim, no man knows a rapist”.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“It is the great misfortune of the coward that he sees danger everywhere, and of the snob that he perpetually underestimates those he considers his inferiors.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Bloody hell, it’s the opposite of selfish,’ said Strike robustly. ‘If everyone thought properly about having kids before they did it, there’d be a lot fewer fucked-up people in the world.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“To be a proper man meant to be a strong man, an outdoors man, but also a man of principle. It meant lack of bombast, a repudiation of shallowness and a core of quiet self-belief. It meant being slow to anger, but firm in conviction. Polworth, like Strike, had had to take his male role models where he could find them, because neither had a father who qualified as ‘proper’, and both boys had found in Edward Nancarrow a man worthy of admiration and emulation, whose approval meant more than any school teacher’s star and whose rebukes spurred a desire to do better,”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Blame not thou the faulting light Nor the whispers of the night: Though the whispering night were still, Yet the heart would counsel ill. A. E. Housman”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“The distinguishing characteristics of a Gateshead were an irrational belief, a dislike of common sense questions and an inability to contemplate alternative explanations for their dilemmas.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“A few seconds later, Fiona opened up. From her online research, Robin knew that Freeman was twenty-three. She was a well-built young woman, literally every visible inch of whom had been embellished or enhanced to send one loud, crude signal: long platinum hair and a deep artificial tan; thick eyelash extensions and pointed, neon pink false nails; fake breasts, filler in her lips and cheekbones – even her toes were adorned with rings and nail varnish, and there was a chain tattooed around her right ankle.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“PC, selecting Tom Waits’ album Blue Valentine and pressing ‘shuffle’. He always appreciated the blunt solace offered by his gravel-voiced favourite. Waits sang of desperation, drugs and drunkenness, of unmourned deaths and lives spent in poverty and hopelessness; love, to Waits, was generally doomed or dirty, and death came early, randomly and brutally. Strike had discovered the singer for himself in his teens, and found him a blessed antidote to the guitar-driven seventies rock bands his mother played incessantly.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battle-fields, which have their heroes,—heroes obscure, but sometimes greater than those who become illustrious. Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“However, they landed without mishap to a round of applause from the passengers, excluding Strike, for whom the forearm-grabbing had been bittersweet, and who’d happily have endured a far rougher descent for prolonged physical contact.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“That men perennially underestimate how many of their fellow men are perverts and predators. You know what they say: “all women know a rape victim, no man knows a rapist”.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“because it reminded him of the tedious hours he’d spent in her company, all in the service of two easy fucks, and of his own stupidity.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“The whole thing feels like something dreamed up by a conspiracy theorist. It’s like the plot of a B movie.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“When you can’t identify the victim, it’s bloody difficult to see why anyone wanted them dead.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“How often do you think there’s a murder case where both the killer and his victim were pretending to be someone else?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“I’ve been hired to do a job,’ said Strike. ‘If it so happens that I have to testify in court that you’re a self-centred cunt who isn’t arsed when his desperate relatives go missing, trust me, I’ll be owning the fucking stage myself. Have a nice Christmas.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“She’s a shit-stirrer, that Kim Cochran,’ said Wardle, whose tone was flat. ‘She’s caused trouble on every job she worked, from what I’ve heard.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“He, with his lifelong resentment of a father who’d begotten him accidentally, who’d had to be forced into the most perfunctory parental obligations by a DNA test, now shackled to his own unwanted kid?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“What man would give a present so intimate, so full of meaning only two people could understand, without knowing how it might be interpreted?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“All she’d deigned to divulge so far was that she wanted something proven, and as Strike couldn’t imagine any possible investigative scenario that didn’t involve proving something, he wasn’t particularly grateful for the pointer.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Let violent young men polish each other off. Who cares?’ ‘But this was a really nasty killing. To do that to a body – if it had happened to a woman—”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“was”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“It is the great misfortune of the coward that he sees danger everywhere”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Matthew Arnold
The Last Word”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“But wherefore be harsh on a single case? After how many modes, this Christmas-Eve, Does the selfsame weary thing take place? The same endeavour to make you believe, And with much the same effect, no more: Each method abundantly convincing, As I say, to those convinced before… Robert Browning
Christmas-Eve”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“The deed a man may do on the spur of the moment, when his brain is on fire, is not so readily done when it has to be thought about. John Oxenham
A Maid of the Silver Sea”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“Now starting to feel as though some personal devil had decided to devote its day to kicking him repeatedly in the balls,”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“he saw a woman he had no memory of ever meeting: dark, overweight, greasy-skinned, wearing a kind of knee-length silver kaftan that made him think of Bacofoil, and angel earrings that flashed, like Lucy’s antlers.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man