Quotes from Karin Slaughter

Your relationship with a person doesn't end when they die. It only gets stronger." He winked at her. "Mostly because they're not there to tell you that you're wrong.

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

Love, like water, always flowed down the path of least resistance.

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

all the pickup-driving John Boys who drove down to Atlanta every day to make money, then drove back at night and railed against the godless liberals who lined their pockets and subsidized their utilities, their healthcare, their children's lunches and their schools.

Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understand. Friends I will never meet. Passions I will never share. You have a life. You have an entire world in front of you.

Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.

Why did it have to be her?

The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat than an actual language

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

what you call my struggle to submit . . . is not struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR

She had dozens, even hundreds, of friends, but not one single person knew all of the pieces of her.

around for your entire adult life, then set it the fuck down, because it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to him.

A possum stared at me through the door all night." "That's Bill." Charlie turned on the giant television. "He's my lover.

When you're drowning, you don't stop to teach somebody else how to swim.

Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Do you realize how terrifying it is to be raped?

People did not change their basic, core personalities.

This is where feminism had gotten her: locked in the back of a sticky squad car with the skirt on her tennis dress riding up her thighs.

I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.

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

Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.

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

Neither of us will ever move forward if we are always looking back.