Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
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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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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.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.
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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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Dream big but think small.
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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
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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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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.