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I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway. ~ Sue Grafton
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying. ~ Sue Grafton
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I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun. ~ Sue Grafton
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I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants. ~ Sue Grafton
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It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex. ~ Sue Grafton
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I'm always aware that under the spritely twitter of birds, bones are being crunched and ribbons of flesh are being stripped away, all of it the work of bright-eyed creatures without feeling or conscience. I don't look to nature for comfort or serenity. ~ Sue Grafton
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Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone ~ Sue Grafton
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There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense. ~ Sue Grafton
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The struggle is what teaches you. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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I know it's true because I made it up myself. ~ Sue Grafton
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The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men. ~ Sue Grafton
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It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points. ~ Sue Grafton
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Kim Bass, Receptionist, was nowhere to be seen. This was fortunate, as I was so irritated with the way she'd treated me, I might have bitten her on the arm. I'd been a biter as a kid and I can still remember the feel of flesh between my teeth. It's like biting a rubber bathing cap, in case you're curious. ~ Sue Grafton
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You don't have to justify yourself to me. You did what you did. ~ Sue Grafton
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pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself. ~ Sue Grafton
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People get careless when they're feeling safe. ~ Sue Grafton
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Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The ~ Sue Grafton
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The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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Whenever Jehovah's Witnesses appear at my door, I always ask for their addresses first thing, assuring them that I'll be around later in the week to plague them with my views. While ~ Sue Grafton
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When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm crippled or ugly. I don't know how you do that, but it's nice. ~ Sue Grafton
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I left him where he was and went down the hall to the kitchenette, where I picked up the coffeepot and filled it with water. I poured the water into the reservoir and then opened a packet of coffee, the grounds neatly sealed in a filter that I tucked into the basket. I flipped the switch and stood there until I could hear the gurgling begin. ~ Sue Grafton
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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks. ~ Sue Grafton
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back. ~ Sue Grafton
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How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence? ~ Sue Grafton
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Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze. ~ Sue Grafton
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You never know which people will affect your life. ~ Sue Grafton
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Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament. ~ Sue Grafton
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Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. ~ Sue Grafton
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I've given this a great deal of thought and what I've realized is that revenge doesn't have to be an eye for an eye. Retaliation can take any number of forms. It doesn't need to be crude or obvious. The point is, the pain should be equivalent; not tit for tat but something comparable. ~ Sue Grafton
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Smile. It gives your face something to do. ~ Sue Grafton
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. ~ Sue Grafton
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Dream big but think small. ~ Sue Grafton
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I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure. ~ Sue Grafton
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't. ~ Sue Grafton
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On the way home, I stopped at the market and stocked ~ Sue Grafton
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So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it. ~ Sue Grafton
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Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance ~ Sue Grafton
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He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss. ~ Sue Grafton
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There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun. ~ Sue Grafton
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To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order. ~ Sue Grafton
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These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all. ~ Sue Grafton
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The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years. ~ Sue Grafton
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Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process. ~ Sue Grafton
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There are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied. ~ Sue Grafton
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The world is full of talented people. ~ Sue Grafton
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. ~ Sue Grafton
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clients you'd swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they're actually the opposite - so hell-bent on 'clean and tidy,' they can't even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standards are so high, they're overwhelmed before they start. To them, it's better not even tackling the job. ~ Sue Grafton
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My take on the indigent is that some are there because of temporary setbacks, some by default, and some for lack of an alternative. Some are needy, some are off their meds, some have opted out, some have been ousted from facilities where they might be better served. Many are there for life and not always by personal choice. Alcoholic, addicted, aimless, illiterate, unmotivated, unskilled, or otherwise unable to prosper, they sink to the bottom, and if they're down for any length of time, they lose the capacity to climb back out of the hole into which they've fallen. If there's a remedy, I don't know what it is. From what I've seen of the problem, most solutions perpetuate the status quo. ~ Sue Grafton
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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles. ~ Sue Grafton
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The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent. ~ Sue Grafton
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He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? ~ Sue Grafton
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The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver. ~ Sue Grafton
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Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know. ~ Sue Grafton
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I truly hate being a guest in someone's home ... Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across the table from me while I'm eating my breakfast. I don't want to share the newspaper and I don't want to talk to anyone at the end of the day. If I were interested in that shit, I'd be married again by now and put a permanent end to all the peace and quiet. ~ Sue Grafton
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us. ~ Sue Grafton
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Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether. ~ Sue Grafton
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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us. ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever. ~ Sue Grafton
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I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two. ~ Sue Grafton
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Poise and indifference so often look the same. ~ Sue Grafton
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What was done was done. ~ Sue Grafton
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend. ~ Sue Grafton
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I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not. ~ Sue Grafton
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. ~ Sue Grafton
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As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back. ~ Sue Grafton
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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. ~ Sue Grafton
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Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was Pete Wolinsky, an unscrupulous private detective I'd met years before through Byrd-Shine Investigations, where I'd served my apprenticeship. I worked for Ben Byrd and Morley Shine for three years, amassing the six thousand hours I needed for my license. The two were old-school private eyes, hard-working, tireless, and inventive. While Ben and Morley did business with Pete on occasion, they didn't think much of him. He was morally shabby, disorganized, and irresponsible with money. ~ Sue Grafton
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. ~ Sue Grafton
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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat. ~ Sue Grafton
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death. ~ Sue Grafton
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Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications. ~ Sue Grafton
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit. ~ Sue Grafton
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My "do" now consisted of some really nifty spikes on top. I looked like a punker, but it was kind of fun, if you want to know the truth. Next thing I knew I'd be getting my ears pierced and chewing gum in public, social sins my auntie had always warned me about, along with red nail polish and dingy bra straps. ~ Sue Grafton
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A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989. ~ Sue Grafton
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Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked. ~ Sue Grafton
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Grief is as contagious as a yawn. ~ Sue Grafton
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Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste. ~ Sue Grafton
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He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make. ~ Sue Grafton
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About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants. ~ Sue Grafton
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Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself. ~ Sue Grafton
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The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, ~ Sue Grafton
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At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. ~ Sue Grafton
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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. ~ Sue Grafton
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You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way. ~ Sue Grafton
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He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This ~ Sue Grafton
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You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself. ~ Sue Grafton
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linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk. ~ Sue Grafton
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Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints. ~ Sue Grafton
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thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa ~ Sue Grafton
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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. ~ Sue Grafton
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else? ~ Sue Grafton
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