Karin Slaughter Quotes

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. I

I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I

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...

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 f...

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.

It was getting to be so ridiculous, she was surprised there weren't special schools for the boring, average children.

Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling.

LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.

Lena had never understood people sending flowers to a funeral home, but she finally realized that the flowers were something for the living to enjoy, a reminder that there was still life in the world,...

Lydia asked, Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol? Claire struggled to return the glass to the floor. Yes. The problem is that I don’t like them very much.

Lydia shook her head. There was no way to tell what had been in Paul’s mind. He knew from me what Anna Kilpatrick’s family was going through, and he watched those horrible movies despite that. Maybe b...

Lydia stared into the darkness of the trunk as she listened to the hum of wheels on the road. She had already run through all the things you were supposed to do if you ever got locked inside a trunk....

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.

Lydia wondered how long it would take for Penelope to tell the other Mothers about the tragic death of Lloyd Delgado. Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else g...

Monte Carlo was blocking the driveway. The trashcan was still on the curb, so he dragged it up to the garage. The motion lights came on, blinding him. Will held up his hand to block the light as he un...

Only...ever...you.

Or maybe Lexie already knew about Claire. Maybe the young little bitch was completely fine with sharing another woman’s husband, with raising the man’s bastard child—or children—while he kept another...

Paul still had feelings for Claire—at least inasmuch as he was capable of feeling anything. He had put the pillow under her head. He’d slid her wedding ring back on her finger. He had taken off her sh...

Proactive interference, Paul would have explained. It’s when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.

Reductio ad Hitlerum. Claire couldn’t stop quoting Paul. It’s when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.