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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
Pam is petite, a bristly little chihuahua of a human being. She is the only woman I ever met who claims to be ten years older than she actually is so everyone will tell her how young she looks.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
Now and then when some dog set up a howl in the back, one or the other of the cats would appear to smile faintly.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority."
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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Sue Grafton _ B is for Burglar
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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