Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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Dream big but think small.
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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
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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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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
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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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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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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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You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.