Sue Grafton Quotes

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

I read a lot about serial killers.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

The bastards murdered half my family.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police, believe me. Those peddling, the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.