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Sue Grafton Quotes

1940–2017 United States

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.

United States
Novelists

Also known as: Sue T Grafton, Sue T. Grafton, Sue Taylor Grafton

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No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

I don’t want her to have a cat because she’ll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That’s the way it is, and how can a P.I. do that?

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sue Grafton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.