Karin Slaughter Quotes

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You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
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Karin Slaughter
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Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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Karin Slaughter
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Considering what Pauline's been through . . ." Will began, then stopped himself. "She's not very nice." "She's a cold-blooded bitch." "I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
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Karin Slaughter (Fractured (Will Trent, #2))
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Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound. Even if it is a Chihuahua.
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Karin Slaughter (Triptych (Will Trent, #1))
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Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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There is kindness in so many unexpected places
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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I’ve always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time
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Karin Slaughter (Fractured (Will Trent, #2))
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A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.
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Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her (Andrea Oliver, #1))
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sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive.Β I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Sara studied him. "Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?" "No, I'm just happy to see you" Sara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole.
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Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her (Andrea Oliver, #1))
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You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man
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Karin Slaughter (Criminal (Will Trent, #6))
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He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.
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Karin Slaughter (Triptych)
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Forever was never as long as you thought it was.
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Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8))
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They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. β€”Mexican Proverb
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Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her)
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A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.
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Karin Slaughter (Fallen (Will Trent, #5))
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No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter)
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I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Every place always has somebody who doesn’t fit in. That’s what makes them fit in.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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. . . he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.
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Karin Slaughter (Criminal (Will Trent, #6))
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You don’t understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can’t predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.
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Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8))
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I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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I can’t—” Lena repeated. β€œI can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lenaβ€”really looked at her straight in the eye. β€œGood,” Sara told her. β€œNow you know how it feels.
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Karin Slaughter (Unseen (Will Trent, #7))
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Dyadic completion,” Paul would’ve told Claire. β€œThe human brain tends to assume that, if there’s a victim, there has to be a villain.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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It’s very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.
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Karin Slaughter (Cop Town)
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A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers. "The biggest fantasy in that book," Paul had said, "is that he changes in the end.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.
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Karin Slaughter (Broken (Will Trent #4))
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Proactive interference,” Paul would have explained. β€œIt’s when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.
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Karin Slaughter (Triptych (Will Trent, #1))
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In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it.
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Karin Slaughter (Triptych (Will Trent, #1))
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As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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Broken: Never underestimate the power of a shared history.
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Karin Slaughter (Broken (Will Trent, #4))
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In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Men can always reinvent themselves,” Laura said. β€œFor women, once you’re a mother, you’re always a mother.
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Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her)
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He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.
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Karin Slaughter (Broken (Will Trent, #4))
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Will had found out the hard way that it’s nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.
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Karin Slaughter (Triptych)
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I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.
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Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8))
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You didn’t help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.
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Karin Slaughter (False Witness)
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I’m not sure,” Callie said. β€œAs you know, cats choose not to talk because they’re afraid we’ll make them pay taxes.
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Karin Slaughter (False Witness)
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I told him before all of this happened was that holding on to that kind of grudge was like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Karin Slaughter (Fallen (Will Trent, #5))
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Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus.
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Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8))
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She had dozens, even hundreds, of friends, but not one single person knew all of the pieces of her.
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Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her)
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That's the problem with life, Sam. If you're not rising, you're falling.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.
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If you love someone, you don’t go out of your way to hurt them. You don’t torture them. You don’t terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That’s not how love works. It’s not how normal people work.
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Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8))
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Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.
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Karin Slaughter (Fallen (Will Trent, #5))
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Rage had consumed her. She hadn’t wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside.
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Karin Slaughter (Cop Town)
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Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.
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Karin Slaughter (Indelible (Grant County, #4))
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If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (The Good Daughter, #1))
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Love, like water, always flowed down the path of least resistance.
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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The spiral stairs looked like a robot’s asshole.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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And now, when she looked in the mirror and saw a new line on her own face,a new wrinkle, all she could think was that she was growing old without him
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole.” β€œIs that what you call your vagina?” Claire chuckled under her breath.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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[...]"but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren’t lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.
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Karin Slaughter (Undone (Will Trent, #3))
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Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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I miss anonymity. People have a right to disappear if they want to. It’s a personal decision, isn’t it? Everyone should have autonomy. We owe it to them as fellow human beings to support their decisions, even if we do not agree with them.
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Karin Slaughter (False Witness)
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The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’re attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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People were outraged.Β They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1))
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His words hung between them, and Faith tried to pin down when exactly their relationship had gone from cooly professional to personal. There was something so kind about him under his awkward manners and social ineptness. Despite her best intentions, Faith realised that she could not hate Will Trent.
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Karin Slaughter (Fractured (Will Trent, #2))
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Dogs are stupid,” Rusty said. β€œThis is a known fact. But a catβ€”you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—” He snapped his fingers. β€œThat’s what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.
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Karin Slaughter (The Good Daughter)
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There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level.
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Karin Slaughter (Fallen (Will Trent, #5))
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Will let out a long breath. "She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again." "Where does she go?" "I have no idea." "You've never asked her?" "No." Sara Didn't pretend to understand. "Why not?". He glanced out into the street, watching the traffic zoom by. "It's complicated.
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Karin Slaughter (Fallen (Will Trent, #5))
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How I compare it to now is, at this moment we are all living through, everyone on earth is experiencing a suspension of loss. Over half a million people dead in the United States alone. The number is too overwhelming to accept, so we go on with our lives and we do what we can but, in the end, the staggering loss will be waiting for us. It always catches up to you, doesn’t it?
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Karin Slaughter (False Witness)
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That doesn’t sound invisible to me.” β€œI’m saying it wrong, then.” Lydia searched for a better way to explain. β€œShe was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could’ve been top in her class, but she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Everest because winning would bring too much attention.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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Curiosity broke her earlier resolve. "Have you ever been tested?" "No." He stood behind Sara, holding the camera in front so she could see. "Zoom here," he said, flicking the toggle. "You could probably-" "This is macro." "Will-" "Super macro." He kept talking over her until she gave up. "Here's where you adjust for color. This is light. Anti-shake. Red-eye." He clicked through the features like a photography instructor. Sara Finally relented. "Why don't I point and you shoot?" "All right." His back was stiff, and she could tell that he was irritated. "I'm sorry I-" "Please don't apologize." Sara held his gaze for a few moments longer, wishing she could fix this. There was nothing to say if he wouldn't even let her apologize.
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Karin Slaughter (Broken (Will Trent, #4))
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That’s when you fall in love with somebody. The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around himβ€”that’s passion. It’s borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out. You know that, Liddie. That high never, ever lasts. But being in that hospital, taking care of him, I started to realize that what I had with Paul, what I thought I had, that was more than love. That was being in love. It was so tangible I could almost touch it with my hands. I could bite it with my teeth.
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Karin Slaughter (Pretty Girls)
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I found this." He put the briefcase on the table and opened the locks. She saw a stack of papers, an evidence bag with a red seal. He pulled a college notebook with a blue plastic cover from one of the pockets. Black fingerprint powder spotted the cover. "I tried to clean it up," he said, wiping the grime on the front of his sweater. "I'm sorry. It was in Allison's car and I..." He flipped through the pages, showing her the scrawled handwriting. "I can't," he said. "I just can't." She realized that Will hadn't looked at her once since walking into the room. He had such an air of defeat about him, as if every word that came from his mouth caused him pain.
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Karin Slaughter (Broken (Will Trent, #4))