Quotes from Sue Grafton

traffic, but

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not

i'm happiest when signs are posted--no spitting, no public urination, no walking on the grass. i might not obey but at least i know where i stood.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

The studies I've seen suggest low levels of cortisol, which affects our ability to feel fear. Without fear, they have no concept of consequences." "Does

In the meantime, I have work of my own to do and a life that feels richer for his having been a part of it.

Working out must have cost him everything he had, yet he never failed to appear. There was a doggedness about him that I admired. I watched him with interest, ashamed of my own interior complaints.

Contributing to the difference in my attitude was the fact that my rage had begun to bore me, and my long whiny tale of woe had become tedious even to my own ears. As much fun as I'd had being irate, the drama had become repetitive. I could probably still wring sympathy from a stranger, but the recital had taken on a certain rote quality that lacked energy and conviction.

That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker.

don't mind my asking?

this is the downside of intuition: when it feels so exactly right, other people's skepticism is infuriating.

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.

It wasn't about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.

worry. For you, I prepare guisada de guilota ." "Wonderful. What's that?" "Is quail braised in tomatillo-chili sauce.

One of Henry's many endearing qualities is his interest in matters that are of interest to me.

Springsteen and Julianne Phillips were married. The story moved from Patti Scialfa's early career to her current state of bliss and ended with gushings of the "they were clearly meant for each other" variety. Oh yeah, right. Like that marriage would last. I

I'm not a process person. I like goals and closure, the arrival instead of the journey itself.

I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.

I've since come to realize how widely the aging process varies.

Whenever Jehovah's Witnesses appear at my door, I always ask for their addresses first thing, assuring them that I'll be around later in the week to plague them with my views. While

clients you'd swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they're actually the opposite—so hell-bent on 'clean and tidy,' they can't even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standards are so high, they're overwhelmed before they start. To them, it's better not even tackling the job.

He was portly and his shoulders were hunched in a way that made me want to monitor my calcium intake.

its embrace. The sky still claims them and we who honor them will hold them dear from this day forward.

There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.