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

2. "Smile. It gives your face something to do." ~ Sue Grafton

3. "It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex." ~ Sue Grafton

4. "You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself." ~ Sue Grafton

5. "He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?" ~ Sue Grafton

6. "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 the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff." ~ Sue Grafton

7. "You never know which people will affect your life." ~ Sue Grafton

8. "I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two." ~ Sue Grafton

9. "I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale." ~ Sue Grafton

10. "Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure." ~ Sue Grafton

11. "The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you right down with it." ~ Sue Grafton

12. "I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun." ~ Sue Grafton

13. "If love is what injures us, how can we heal?" ~ Sue Grafton

14. "You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to." ~ Sue Grafton

15. "I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse." ~ Sue Grafton

16. "He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make." ~ Sue Grafton

17. "Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression." ~ Sue Grafton

18. "I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants." ~ Sue Grafton

19. "She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone." ~ Sue Grafton

20. "Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all." ~ Sue Grafton

21. "Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze." ~ Sue Grafton

22. "You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way." ~ Sue Grafton

23. "I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure." ~ Sue Grafton

24. "Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)" ~ Sue Grafton

25. "Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb." ~ Sue Grafton

26. "For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first"Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance" ~ Sue Grafton

27. "If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense." ~ Sue Grafton

28. "Grief is as contagious as a yawn." ~ Sue Grafton

29. "We all need to look into the dark side of our nature -- that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying." ~ Sue Grafton

30. "I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again." ~ Sue Grafton

31. "Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it." ~ Sue Grafton

32. "People can hold out just so long and then they fold." ~ Sue Grafton

33. "Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track." ~ Sue Grafton

34. "The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge." ~ Sue Grafton

35. "I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)" ~ Sue Grafton

36. "About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants." ~ Sue Grafton

37. "Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications." ~ Sue Grafton

38. "Some people die accidentally. It's a fact." ~ Sue Grafton

39. "Things can fool you sometimes." ~ Sue Grafton

40. "My own mystery, unplumed, undetected, was sorted into files that were neatly labeled but really didn't say much." ~ Sue Grafton

41. "I like my life as it is." ~ Sue Grafton

42. "Ordinarily, an alibi is an account of suspect's whereabouts at the time a crime was committed and it's offered up as proof of innocence, but here it didn't matter where anyone was." ~ Sue Grafton

43. "It's fun to horse around with danger." ~ Sue Grafton

44. "It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed." ~ Sue Grafton

45. "Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates." ~ Sue Grafton

46. "Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it." ~ Sue Grafton

47. "So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed." ~ Sue Grafton

48. "You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change." ~ Sue Grafton

49. "Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.""I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly."Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied." ~ Sue Grafton

50. "While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)" ~ Sue Grafton

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