272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

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

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.

My “do” now consisted of some really nifty spikes on top. I looked like a punker, but it was kind of fun, if you want to know the truth. Next thing I knew I’d be getting my ears pierced and chewing gum in public, social sins my auntie had always warned me about, along with red nail polish and dingy bra straps.

Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don’t always recognize and can’t always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.

Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you’d been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.

You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I had. Escape has been the motivating force in my life. Getting away from him, getting away from her, putting that household behind me. The funny this is, I haven’t moved an inch, and the harder I run, the faster I keep slipping back to them... There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

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.

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. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?” – Kinsey Millhone.

I’m a born liar myself and I know how it’s done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.