Quotes by Sue Grafton

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

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

“Lets face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.”

“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 yo...”

“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 likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.”

“You cant save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives dont appreciate your interfering with the drama theyve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy...”

“It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”

“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 ...”

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

“I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.”

“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 p...”

“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 doe...”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them ha...”

“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind...”

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