{"author":"Sue Grafton","author_id":"Sue+Grafton","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["food","kinsey-millhone"],"id":6410,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["dying","wisdom"],"id":69660,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["success"],"id":80395,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"My mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["despair"],"id":101949,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?' - Kinsey Millhone.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["life-and-death"],"id":106991,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"I love being single. It's almost like being rich.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["self","reliance"],"id":131703,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["ghosts","haunting","perception"],"id":140666,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["insecure","opinion","people"],"id":154804,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["passion","busy","dark "],"id":176088,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["alibi","chilling","dinner","family","murder"],"id":188832,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}