The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever.

Sue Grafton
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  4. Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. - J.k. Rowling

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More Quotes By Sue Grafton
  1. Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

  2. Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

  3. I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

  4. It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

  5. Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

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