272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.

It’s fun to horse around with danger.

I’m always aware that under the spritely twitter of birds, bones are being crunched and ribbons of flesh are being stripped away, all of it the work of bright-eyed creatures without feeling or conscience. I don’t look to nature for comfort or serenity.

You can’t go back to something once it’s dead.

The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by then, both parties have decided the issue isn’t worth the relationship.

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.

Another one of life’s little jokes. I thought it was a tumor ’til it started to kick.

The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

He looked like an actor who’d star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest.