“Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they’d continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,’ she admitted. ‘Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
“Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.”
― A Rule Against Murder
― A Rule Against Murder
“The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.”
― A Rule Against Murder
― A Rule Against Murder
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