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Sue Grafton, née le 24 avril 1940 est une écrivaine américaine de roman policier.

✵ 24. avril 1940 – 28. décembre 2017  •  Autres noms 수 그래프턴, سو غرافتون, سو قرافتون
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“Aucun cri n'est terrible comme celui d'un homme qui pleure sa propre mort.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“C'est la clef de tout bon management. Fais gaffe au gars qu'est au-dessous de toi dans le boulot. Ne le mets pas au parfum.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“Aucun d'entre nous n'est à l'abri de la tentation quand se présente l'occasion d'être malhonnête.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“Nous appartenons à une société pieusement préoccupée par les droits des criminels alors que les vies de leurs victimes ont été saccagées sans souci du prix de la douleur et de la souffrance.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“La violence est une forme de spectacle que seuls les indigents peuvent s'offrir. Le prix du billet n'est pas coûteux. A l'affiche, c'est toujours la tragédie de la vie et de la mort […] la grande terreur des mères qui regardent angoissées, dans les coulisses. Souvent, ce sont les spectateurs qui tombent sous les balles perdues.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“Le crime engendre une dépendance. Les récidivistes sont motivés par le manque plus que par la nécessité.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

“Ce qu'il y a de pénible dans l'amour, c'est le vide qu'il laisse une fois qu'il a disparu.”

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H comme Homicide, 1991

Sue Grafton: Citations en anglais

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

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Source: M is for Malice

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

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Source: T is for Trespass

“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.”

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Source: I is for Innocent

“It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”

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Source: J is for Judgment

“There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.”

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Source: E is for Evidence

“I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.”

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Source: V is for Vengeance

“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.”

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Source: M is for Malice

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

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Source: J is for Judgment

“Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)”

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Source: B is for Burglar

“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”

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Source: C is for Corpse

“Smile. It gives your face something to do.”

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Source: E is for Evidence

“Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.”

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Source: F is for Fugitive

“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”

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Source: A is for Alibi

“In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.”

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Source: Q is for Quarry

“Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.”

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Source: B is for Burglar

“A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.”

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Source: D is for Deadbeat

“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?”

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On why Kinsey Millhone, the private-investigator heroine of her popular series of mystery novels, will never have a cat.
New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

“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.”

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New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

“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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Kinsey Millhone
"A" Is for Alibi (1982)

“Our family histories are like fairy tales we're told from a very early age. In the tale, we're cast as hero or victim, as the infant rescued or abandoned, discounted or deified. From this we form an image of ourselves and our relationship to the world. Often it's a story we act out over and over again, trying to make the ending come out right instead of the way it did.”

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A Conversation with Sue Grafton http://www.suegrafton.com/interview.htm (1996)

“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.”

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Kinsey Millhone, referring to her continual investigations of murders.
"K" Is for Killer (1994)

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