Sue Grafton

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.

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.""I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly."Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it