Sue Grafton Short Quotes

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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

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I feel like grief is an illness I can't recover from.

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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

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He smelled like something that spent the winter in a cave.

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A kid whose conscience is clear because he doesn't have one.

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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

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Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

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Clouds were piled up like heads of cauliflower in a roadside stand.

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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

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You're never going to have to watch Kinsey Millhone go through menopause.

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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

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Being with him was like being in a crowded elevator, stuck between floors.

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Wherever there is sex, we work to create a relationship that's worthy of it.

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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

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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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You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

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He tended to speak in doubtful tones, as if he weren't absolutely certain he was telling the truth.

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She thought she was married to him, but it turned out the warranty hadn't run out on his first wife.

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He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

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Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

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