Sue Grafton Quotes

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• Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

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  Voice, Important, Train

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• If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

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  Mind, Mouths, Insult

  Sue Grafton (1996). “"M" is for Malice”, p.81, Macmillan

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• You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

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  Change, Sympathy, Baby

  Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.94, Penguin

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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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  Letting Go, Ghost

  Sue Grafton (1996). “"M" is for Malice”, p.280, Macmillan

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

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  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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

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  People, Want, Busybodies

  Sue Grafton (2006). “S is for Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.366, Penguin

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• If you're unhappy, change something.

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  Unhappy, Ifs

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

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  Lucky, Survivor, Firsts

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• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

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  Sheep, Ideas, Goats

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• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

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  Fear, Passion, Dark

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• My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

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  Jobs, Fool, Reader

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• Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

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  Pain, Hard Work, Writing

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

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  Family, People, Dysfunctional Family

  Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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  Believe, Police, Dinner

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan

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

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  Dream, Play, People

  Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.172, Macmillan

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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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  Past, Thinking, Back Again

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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.

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  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

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

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  Good Friend, Air, Elements

  Sue Grafton (2010). “P is for Peril”, p.197, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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  Writing, Two, Brain

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• The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

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  Life Is, Nothing Ever Changes, Hard

  Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.1, Macmillan

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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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  Jobs, Trying, Facts

  ""K" Is for Killer". Book by Sue Grafton, 1994.

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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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  Simple, Trying, Ends

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.308, Macmillan

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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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  Love You, People, Waiting

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• The struggle is what teaches you.

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  Struggle, Teach

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• Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

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  Thinking, Normal, Pretending

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