Sue Grafton Quotes

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death w...

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ...

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t...

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but ...

Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of th...

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

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. Peop...

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted...

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting...

Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in pr...

The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often thei...

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, t...

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experie...

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion ...

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who like...

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are com...

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pre...