Quotes from Karin Slaughter

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

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.

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.

I can't—" Lena repeated. "I 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 Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. "Good," Sara told her. "Now you know how it feels.

When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole.

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.

Forever was never as long as you thought it was.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

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.

Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man

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

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.

A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.

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.

Every place always has somebody who doesn't fit in. That's what makes them fit in.

You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.

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

I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.

He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.

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.

he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.

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.

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