Quotes from Sue Grafton

should be relieved, but I'm pissed. The irony is that he's probably still going to dominate my life.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck.

Idly, I wondered what it'd be like to have a city street named after me. Kinsey Avenue. Kinsey Road. Not bad. I figured I could learn to live with the tribute if it came my way.

could hear creaking sounds as the boats shifted in the harbor waters, bobbing and swaying with an occasional tinkling of metal on metal. Our footsteps formed an irregular rhythm as we clunked along the walkway.

It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

You'd think she'd be relieved, I said. From what I hear, he beat the shit out of her. Not at first. She was crazy about him when he first got out. Still is, actually. That's probably why she called him the world's biggest asshole at the funeral, I remarked.

Sometimes the import of a minor moment makes all the difference.

I'm well aware that immortality is simply an illusion we carry with us to keep ourselves functional from day to day, but the idea of a murder contract was inconceivable to me.

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.

Surely, Hell is your former spouse that close again... flirting with a nurse.

Bobby was buried on Saturday. . . . I wasn't going to lose control in a public setting like this. Even so, there were moments when I could feel my face heat up and my eyes blur with tears. It was more than this loss. It was all death, every loss - my parents, my aunt.

He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This

He sported a wedding ring and a wristwatch that looked sturdy enough to flush down a toilet without losing time.

I'm capable of screwing things up by trying to solve all the problems in advance instead of simply taking care of issues as they surface. I

By doing nothing, Sloan's so-called friends had sealed her fate as surely as Fritz had with his gun. In hindsight, did any of them recognize the price she had paid for their passivity? Their failure to act was all the more damning for the ease with which they rationalized their behavior afterward.

One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch.

Being rule-governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints. 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 knew where I stood.

My dear, acting out is not the point because then the game would end. If I gave up the hope of reprisal, I'd forfeit the anger, which is better than pain.

Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.

I don't know what love is about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.

Better catch up with reality. You're missing the boat. Time's going to come when computers will do everything." "I have trouble believing that. It just seems so unlikely ." "You're not a believer like the rest of us. The day will come when ten-year-olds will master these machines and you'll be at their mercy.

regardless of social status, we derive comfort from our stuff; the familiar warp and weft of our lives

She offered me a bra, which I declined. No point in putting apples in a sack meant for cantaloupes.