Sue Grafton Quotes
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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Give yourself time to get better.
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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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.
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I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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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.
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.