Best Kinsey Millhone Quotes

#1. And he helped you do it?"

"No, sweetheart. He told me I could do it.

Claire Kells

#2. A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.

Nostradamus

#3. panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#4. Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

Sue Grafton

#5. Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.

Sue Grafton

#6. I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

Sue Grafton

#7. I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?

Sue Grafton

#8. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#9. Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

Todd Helton

#10. While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#11. Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

#12. I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#13. 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

Sue Grafton

#14. 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.

Sue Grafton

#15. I don't shave," she interjected, stopping my train of thought again. "You don't shave?" I asked, my eyes traveling to her bare legs. "No." "Ever?" I asked inanely. Her legs had been smooth when I took off her sandal last night. "Yes, ever," Layna answered. "Everywhere?

Libby Austin

#16. I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks ... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.

Sue Grafton

#17. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Lucille Kallen

#18. I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.

Sue Grafton

#19. For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

#20. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

Sue Grafton

#22. 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)

Sue Grafton

#23. I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

Peter Steele

#24. There is no creativity without vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#25. Who's taking care of you?" "Them, for now," said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. "Is she in protective

David Baldacci

#26. Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Moby

#27. The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sue Grafton