272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

There’s something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn’t news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues – death in all its forms. It’s folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time.

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.