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I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9) QUOTES

I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9) QUOTES

1 " Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

2 " 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. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

3 " 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. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

4 " Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view. 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. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

5 " 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. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

6 " Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

7 " 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. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

8 " I’m not cute at all. I’m a very cranky person. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

9 " Thinking is hard work, which is why you don’t see a lot of people doing it. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

10 " It’s hard to have faith in your fellow man when you’re forced to look at some of his handiwork. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

11 " Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

12 " There’s no point to anything if you get right down to it. We could all blow out brains out, but we don’t. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

13 " What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

14 " trail, "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

15 " Tragedy can turn your life around if you’re open to it. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

16 " 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 , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

17 " Being fired is the pits, ranking right up there with infidelity in its brutalizing effect. The ego recoils and one’s self-image is punctured like a tire by a nail. In the weeks since I’d been terminated, I’d gone through all the stages one suffers at the diagnosis of a soon-to-be-fatal disease: anger, denial, bargaining, drunkenness, foul language, head colds, rude hand gestures, anxiety, and eating disorders of sudden onset. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

18 " Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste. "

― Sue Grafton , I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)