Sue Grafton Quotes

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.

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

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

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.

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.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.