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M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13) QUOTES

M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13) QUOTES

1 " Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

2 " Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

3 " It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

4 " It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

5 " Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

6 " As long as you have sufficient toilet paper, how far wrong can life go? "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

7 " Get old, you might as well not worry about your dignity. Anybody talks about dignity for old folks has never been around one as far as I can tell. You can keep your spunk, but you have to give up your vanity early on. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

8 " 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 , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

9 " 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. "

― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

10 " . People have rejected me all my life. Sometimes it's death or desertion. infidelity, betrayal. You name it. I've experienced every form of emotional treachery there is. Well, big deal. Everybody's suffered something in life and so what? I'm not sitting around feeling sorry for myself, but I'd have to be a fool to lay myself open to that shit again.”

Excerpt From: Grafton, Sue. “M Is for Malice.” Macmillan, 1996-04-15T17:29:10+00:00. iBooks.
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― Sue Grafton , M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)