Kinsey and Me Quotes

“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story, correcting weaknesses and follies in the light of what I now know. What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck. The past is a package deal and I don't believe there's a way to tell some of the truth without telling most.Wisdom comes at a price, and I have paid dearly for mine.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me

“I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me

“What I’ve noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me: Stories

“my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me

“up. A singsong voice said, “At the sound of the tone, General Telephone time will be twelve o’clock, exactly.” I burst out laughing and Althea looked at me.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me: Stories

“Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn’t come until later.”
― Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me: Stories