272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

To many women mistake a man’s hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

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.

I’ve never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Results for “I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I’ve noticed that most of us don’t have a clue what we smell like to other people. It’s almost as though our noses blank us out in self-defense.

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 our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what’s evident forever affected by the gravity of what’s concealed.

There’s a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn’t mine to begin with.

So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed.

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.