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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 86ce4bb | What for?" "I'm not authorized to discuss the matter with anyone else. Are you related to her?" A pause. "I'm her sister. I'm from Minneapolis." The best thing about lying are the flourishes, I thought. I myself am a world-class practitioner. "And your name is?" "Patty." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 0393673 | Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 451528a | What I could see of the apartment looked much like the office: gold high-low carpeting, Early American furniture, probably from Montgomery Ward. A painting of Jesus hung on the wall at the foot of the bed. He had his palms open, eyes lifted towards heaven- pained no doubt, by Ori's home decorating taste. | Sue Grafton | ||
| df4cd77 | All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b57c2f4 | I am still able to recite long portions of Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman" at the slightest provocation." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 5d4132e | Just what it said. I left a message telling him I had a garage full of stuff I needed to get rid of. I knew he'd be in the neighborhood the twenty-fourth, so all I had to do was give him my address. I had to be at work, so I put the fifty bucks in an envelope and taped it to the back door. I came home, he'd emptied the garage, and everything looked great." "So you never actually laid eyes on him and you never got his name?" "I needed the ga.. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a3208c8 | My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b17878c | I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night? | Sue Grafton | ||
| b848427 | there are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 8a15d08 | The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver. | Sue Grafton | ||
| f641123 | It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 88fc2ef | Sauconys | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2d197fe | One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 324f5ce | I don't. I take it he was homeless." Aaron shrugged. "That's my guess. A group of them have been congregating in that grassy patch across the street from the Santa Teresa Inn. Before that, they camped in the park adjacent to the municipal swimming pool." "Who called it in?" He took off his glasses and polished" | Sue Grafton | ||
| c8d435a | bailiwick. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 158cfaa | clients you'd swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they're actually the opposite--so hell-bent on 'clean and tidy,' they can't even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standards are so high, they're overwhelmed before they start. To them, it's better not even tackling the job. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 069be60 | linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk. | Sue Grafton | ||
| baa5232 | My take on the indigent is that some are there because of temporary setbacks, some by default, and some for lack of an alternative. Some are needy, some are off their meds, some have opted out, some have been ousted from facilities where they might be better served. Many are there for life and not always by personal choice. Alcoholic, addicted, aimless, illiterate, unmotivated, unskilled, or otherwise unable to prosper, they sink to the bot.. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7ba8c68 | Tragedy can turn your life around if you're open to it. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d6c0bbc | I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d0754a5 | Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white. | Sue Grafton | ||
| fe60e17 | The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots. Behind her, a big red dildo-shaped spaceship was just blasting off for the moon. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 8810447 | We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock" | Sue Grafton | ||
| 703ba7f | Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 55d7611 | what you're so worried | Sue Grafton | ||
| d22145c | That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker. What a bitch. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a058e31 | Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2fe5a08 | Idly, I wondered what it'd be like to have a city street named after me. Kinsey Avenue. Kinsey Road. Not bad. I figured I could learn to live with the tribute if it came my way. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 3fb05a5 | Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to its sequel. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e605ef4 | this is the downside of intuition: when it feels so exactly right, other people's skepticism is infuriating. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 82a8c2f | I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4132e5c | I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a9a1518 | I left him where he was and went down the hall to the kitchenette, where I picked up the coffeepot and filled it with water. I poured the water into the reservoir and then opened a packet of coffee, the grounds neatly sealed in a filter that I tucked into the basket. I flipped the switch and stood there until I could hear the gurgling begin. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c0186ec | Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 053e4f0 | He'd set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched | Sue Grafton | ||
| fe6f1f2 | him add a quarter cup of baking soda, after which he placed the silverware in the bubbling water with the foil. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 9e13724 | Elmore Leonard, | Sue Grafton | ||
| bc3decd | He'd set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched him add a quarter cup of baking soda, after which he placed the silverware in the bubbling water with the foil. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d86450d | I was startled out of my concentration by the sound of malicious hissing. Waddling toward me with remarkable speed were two huge white geese, their heads thrust forward, mouths open like snakes with their tongues protruding, emitting a terrifying sound. I gave a low involuntary cry and began to backtrack toward my car, afraid to take my eyes off them. They covered the ground between us at a pace that forced me into a run. I barely reached m.. | humor | Sue Grafton | |
| 9a77aef | hard candies | Sue Grafton | ||
| dcc8bdd | I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a96f581 | I'm not the kind of person who sentimentalizes nature. The outdoors, as far as I can see, is made up almost entirely of copulating creatures who eat one another afterwards. | Sue Grafton | ||
| aea98df | up. A singsong voice said, "At the sound of the tone, General Telephone time will be twelve o'clock, exactly." I burst out laughing and Althea looked at me." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 77dc3de | Death always leaves unfinished business in its wake, mysteries beyond fathoming, countless unanswered questions amid the detritus of life. All the stories forgotten, the memories lost. | Sue Grafton |