“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.”

— Sue Grafton

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

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