Karin Slaughter Quotes

He grinned. It’s cheaper than that

He is a man who is comfortable airing his opinions, and confident that every single word that comes out of his mouth is not just correct, but fascinating. He has money, which is evident from the car h...

He said, 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 potenti...

He shrugged. Are you going to answer me? You told me to shut up.

He was headstrong, and stupid, and handsome, which gave him cover for a hell of a lot of the mistakes he continually made-the same mistakes, over and over again, because why try new ones when the old...

He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.

He would never challenge her or scare her or infuriate her or stir up any of those fiery emotions that made it worthwhile to put up with a man’s bullshit. Why

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...

I guess I see your point, but there’s more to ­people than how they look. But you only get to know somebody because you like what you see. He smiled down at her. I like what I see. Lydia wond...

I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.

It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it's your heart that needs looking after.

Julia. Lydia looked back at the woman with the broom. She was scraping chairs across the sidewalk as she put together the tables. Claire said, That skeevy jackass who got Dad arrested still runs the p...

Lydia's vingers stuitten op de lege bodem van de chipszak. Ze voelde zich ellendig. Ze had die chips helemaal niet gewild. Na de eerste hap proefde ze ze eigenlijk niet eens meer.

Men can always reinvent themselves, Laura said. For women, once you’re a mother, you’re always a mother.

Not if you add in the earrings. They shouldn’t joke about this, but the alternative was to take it very seriously. She said, It’s weird. I know the monitor’s not there anymore, but I can still feel it...

Paul must have watched the tapes on the same VCR that Lydia and Claire had seen in the Fuller house. Claire imagined her young, awkward husband sitting in front of the television watching his dead fat...

Press evenly, the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

She had felt capable of anything.

She had seen this before. She knew that you could put it all in a little box and close it up later, that you could go on with your life if you didn't sleep too much, didn't breathe too much, didn't li...