272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

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

Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.