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36cd5dc
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A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.
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Sue Grafton |
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My own mystery, unplumed, undetected, was sorted into files that were neatly labeled but really didn't say much.
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Sue Grafton |
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d033c6b
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I like my life as it is.
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Sue Grafton |
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8141cbd
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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4af07bd
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Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.
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Sue Grafton |
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d273aea
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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0f463fc
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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42e1134
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What was done was done.
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Sue Grafton |
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c07260a
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We are here this afternoon to mourn the passing of two good friends, Terrence Dace and Felix Beider. They were homeless. Their ways were not those we most desire for ourselves, but that didn't make them wrong. We seem determined to save the homeless, to fix them, to change them into something other than what they are. We want them to be like us, but they are not. The homeless do not want our pity, nor do they deserve our scorn. Our judgment..
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Sue Grafton |
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64938f6
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.
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Sue Grafton |
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a book has no unwanted calories and you don't have to worry about sizes as long as the subject matter appeals to the recipient.
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Sue Grafton |
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48ab84c
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I used to have a crow named Albert. Bertie, when I got to know him better. I got him when he was just a little guy and had him for years. A young crow doesn't navigate well and they'll sometimes crash-land. They're called branchers at that age-that's about all they can do, lumber awkwardly from branch to branch. Sometimes they get stuck and they wail like babies until you get 'em down. Bertie must have bitten off a bit more than he could ch..
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Sue Grafton |
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320c623
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There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.
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Sue Grafton |
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0f972a1
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It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.
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sue-grafton
suspicion
dislike
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Sue Grafton |
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a3d6fb3
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I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.
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Sue Grafton |
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97bedca
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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65d2ffd
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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8d6fba1
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There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn't news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues--death in all its forms. It's folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time.
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Sue Grafton |
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a66d7ff
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You can't go back to something once it's dead.
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Sue Grafton |
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7e58b93
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I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease.
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Sue Grafton |
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4b76e29
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It's not that gray water's boring, but the subject does have its limits.
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Sue Grafton |
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b1cd9f0
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I had. Escape has been the motivating force in my life. Getting away from him, getting away from her, putting that household behind me. The funny this is, I haven't moved an inch, and the harder I run, the faster I keep slipping back to them...There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
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Sue Grafton |
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b7a80b9
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I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into my siege mentality, looking forward to pulling up the drawbridge and waiting out the rain. With luck, I wouldn't have to go out for days.
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Sue Grafton |
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b31eb5c
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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.
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murder
innocence
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Sue Grafton |
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526e90a
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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."
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Sue Grafton |
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Results for "I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I've noticed that most of us don't have a clue what we smell like to other people. It's almost as though our noses blank us out in self-defense."
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Sue Grafton |
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People have rejected me all my life. Sometimes it's death or desertion. infidelity, betrayal. You name it. I've experienced every form of emotional treachery there is. Well, big deal. Everybody's suffered something in life and so what? I'm not sitting around feeling sorry for myself, but I'd have to be a fool to lay myself open to that shit again." Excerpt From: Grafton, Sue. "M Is for Malice." Macmillan, 1996-04-15T17:29:10+00:00. iBooks. ..
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kinsey-millhone
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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.
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spinster
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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we understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
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Sue Grafton |
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4eabd21
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The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.
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Sue Grafton |
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Sometimes these kids are ADHD and sometimes not--but they're always unemotional. They might have tantrums, but what looks like fury is pure manipulation. They have no empathy and they have no desire to please. They don't care about punishment. They don't care about other people's pain and suffering. It just doesn't interest them." "You"
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Sue Grafton |
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I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.
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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.
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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.
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Sue Grafton |
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e3a987a
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I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.
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rudeness
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Sue Grafton |
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The Copse at Hurstbourne is one of those fancy-sounding titles for a brand-new tract of condominiums on the outskirts of town. 'Copse' as in 'a thicket of small trees.' 'Hurst' as in 'hillock, knoll, or mound.' And 'bourne' as in 'brook or stream.' All of these geological and botanical wonders did seem to conjoin within the twenty parcels of the development, but it was hard to understand why it couldn't have just been called Shady Acres, wh..
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Sue Grafton |
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d7d26e0
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Everything happens for a reason but that doesn't mean there is a point.
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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,
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Sue Grafton |
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She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.
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Sue Grafton |
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e4742e7
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pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.
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sue grafton |
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Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks."
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Sue Grafton |
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34c9c6e
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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
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Sue Grafton |