Karin Slaughter Quotes

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

Charlie watched her husband’s boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.

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 a...

If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.

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...

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

Michael swallowed, feeling like he was choking on his grief. Fifteen, he said. She’d just had a birthday last week. He’d bought her a stuffed giraffe. She’s fifteen.

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. S...

Sua mãe e eu sempre ficávamos muito satisfeitos, em segredo, com o fato de você ser tão determinada e intensa em relação a suas causas. Quando você foi embora, entendemos que essas eram as qualidades...

That is complicated question with an equally complicated answer.

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

The spiral stairs looked like a robot’s asshole.

Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen.

Yeah? I miss the way you taste. She tried to sound bored. It’s still Colgate. That’s not the taste I was talking about.

Claire shook her head. She was scared that he wasn’t taking her seriously. She was also scared that he was. They were down the rabbit hole now. There was no turning back.

Dogs are stupid, Rusty said. This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and— He snapped his fingers. That’s what your mama was to me. S...

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Her birthday was yesterday, August twentieth. Why had Laura said that she was born in January? 6 Andy drove up and down what seemed like the city of Carrollton’s main drag.

Her hearing had faded out as soon as he’d touched her—maybe it was the angels playing harps or the exploding fireworks. Maybe her drink was too strong or her heart was too lonely.

I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.