- Cormoran Strike: [talking to his false leg] Bollocks! Why do I always take you off before I remember to have a piss?
- [he reaches for a coffee mug and pees into it]
- [Cormoran is chatting to Lula's driver]
- Nico Kolovas-Jones: She lived in a world that's really fucking hard. We had a lot in common.
- Cormoran Strike: Such as?
- Nico Kolovas-Jones: Both mixed-race, for one thing. My dad's a Cypriot from Swansea, and my mum's a West Indian Scouser.
- Cormoran Strike: [ironically] Must have been a nice quiet wedding.