Quotes from Karin Slaughter

I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

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.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

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.

Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.

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.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

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.

A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound. Even if it is a Chihuahua.

I've got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.

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

It is a father's job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.

There is kindness in so many unexpected places

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.

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.

He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.

Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place.

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.