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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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Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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If love is what injures us, how can we heal?
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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People can hold out just so long and then they fold.
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Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.
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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.
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The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.
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Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.
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You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right.
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I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good." Kinsey Milhone"
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While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)
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You can believe anything you like.
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Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative.
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I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that..
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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.
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He looked like an actor who'd star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest.
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maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was
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I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)
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Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.
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Sue Grafton |
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To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order.
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I have friends who adore high heels, but I can't see the point. I figure if high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
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Sue Grafton |
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Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.
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Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.
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He has all the uncanny intuitions of a psychopath. Have you ever dealt with one? It's almost like a form of mind-reading...
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The world is full of talented people.
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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.
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It's fun to horse around with danger.
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The downside of fitness, which takes years to achieve, is how quickly it vanishes--almost instantly.
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I'm not cute at all. I'm a very cranky person.
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The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by then, both parties have decided the issue isn't worth the relationship.
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I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.
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I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.
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She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.
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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"
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Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake.
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She held out her hand and we sat there together like grade-school kids on a field trip. "Line up in twos and no talking." Life itself is a peculiar outing. Sometimes I still feel like I need a note from my mother."
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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.
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He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make.
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It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.
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Sue Grafton |
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Things can fool you sometimes.
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Sue Grafton |
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When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.
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People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.
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