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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
— Sue Grafton
A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
— Sue Grafton
There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.
— Sue Grafton
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.
— Sue Grafton
Grief is an illness I can't recover from.
— Sue Grafton
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
— Sue Grafton
I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.
— Sue Grafton
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
— Sue Grafton
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
its embrace. The sky still claims them and we who honor them will hold them dear from this day forward.
— Sue Grafton
Four. I checked the other side
— Sue Grafton
linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk.
— Sue Grafton
Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.
— Sue Grafton
Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.
— Sue Grafton
My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.
— Sue Grafton
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
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance — Sue Grafton
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
People can hold out just so long and then they fold.
— Sue Grafton
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
— Sue Grafton
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
— Sue Grafton
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
It's fun to horse around with danger.
— Sue Grafton
We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
— Sue Grafton
When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.
— Sue Grafton
On the way home, I stopped at the market and stocked
— Sue Grafton
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
— Sue Grafton
What was done was done.
— Sue Grafton
The world is full of talented people.
— Sue Grafton
How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?
— Sue Grafton
You can believe anything you like.
— Sue Grafton
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
— Sue Grafton
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.
— Sue Grafton
thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa
— Sue Grafton
It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.
— Sue Grafton
The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.
— Sue Grafton
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
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
— Colleen O'Connor
Smile. It gives your face something to do.
— Sue Grafton
A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie
— Sue Grafton
The struggle is what teaches you.
— Sue Grafton
If love is what injures us, how can we heal?
— Sue Grafton
When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm crippled or ugly. I don't know how you do that, but it's nice.
— Sue Grafton
Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I
— Sue Grafton
Things can fool you sometimes.
— Sue Grafton
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
— Sue Grafton
I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone
— Sue Grafton
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
— Sue Grafton
I tend to place kids in a class with dogs, preferring the quiet, the smart, and the well trained.
— Sue Grafton
I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.
— Sue Grafton
Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.
— Sue Grafton
It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.
— Sue Grafton
If you're unhappy, change something.
— Sue Grafton
It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.
— Sue Grafton
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
— Sue Grafton
I like lines, I earn mine.
— Sue Grafton
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
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
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
— Sue Grafton
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
As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.
— Sue Grafton
The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.
— Sue Grafton
Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The
— Sue Grafton
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
I know it's true because I made it up myself.
— Sue Grafton
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
— Sue Grafton
Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.
— Sue Grafton
my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.
— Sue Grafton
It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.
— Sue Grafton
All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.
— Sue Grafton
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
— Sue Grafton
crayon. Age had given his face a softly
— Sue Grafton
We all do things we regret. It's part of growing up.
— Sue Grafton
You never know which people will affect your life.
— Sue Grafton
People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.
— Sue Grafton
Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth.
— Sue Grafton
What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.
— Sue Grafton
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
— Sue Grafton
Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
— Sue Grafton