Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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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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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
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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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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.
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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.
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Dream big but think small.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
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There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.
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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.