“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“People can hold out just so long and then they fold.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“My own mystery, unplumed, undetected, was sorted into files that were neatly labeled but really didn't say much.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“Vegas tends to affect me that way, some combination of tension and dread to which my body responds with all the symptoms of incipient flu.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“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.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“I don’t know what love is about and I’m not sure I believe in it anyway.”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
“A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn’t half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie”
― Sue Grafton, quote from A is for Alibi
Sue Grafton
Born place: in Louisville, Kentucky
Born date April 24, 1940
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“I mean, do you believe in God or what? “ “Not the name-brand God they serve here.” Tim said. “That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That’s bullshit. I believe in everything.”
― Chris Fuhrman, quote from The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946)”
― Carol Tavris, quote from Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting "making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn’t one item on that list that’s worth a damn if the company isn’t making money.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, quote from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
“As she placed her stil-beating heart in the hole she'd dug, there on it's surface another golden fleck swirled into existence. It was then that she knew she was doing the right thing. Keeping her own heart when she'd already decided who it belonged to felt wrong, as if she was holding stolen possessions. No. Her heart was no longer hers, couldn't be Vincent's, and sadly, was never to be Jim's.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, quote from On the Other Side
“I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.”
― Ishmael Beah, quote from A Long Way Gone
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