Quotes from Karin Slaughter

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....Or not, in some cases.... ....Sounds a lot like being shot in the head.

She doubted a generation that had grown up with WAP, murder hornets, Covid, cataclysmic social unrest, and being forcibly home-schooled by a bunch of depressed day drinkers really understood the threat of pool halls, but Leigh had to hand it to the drama teacher for putting on a gender-neutral production of The Music Man, one of the least offensive and most tedious musicals ever staged by a middle school.

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

You are magnificent because you are so uniquely you

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

She had felt capable of anything.

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

Yeah?" "I miss the way you taste." She tried to sound bored. "It's still Colgate." "That's not the taste I was talking about.

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.

Age is a cruel punishment for youth.

You're supposed to be my lawyer." "You're supposed to be a human being

revenge is like sipping poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Women were as mysterious to them as the origins of the planet.

The smell of fresh air made Kate's eyes sting. She looked up. The pole lights were on. The sun was sinking like a stone. Maggie asked, "Where's your car parked?

Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone—no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin—was equally maligned.

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

Michael swallowed, feeling like he was choking on his grief. "Fifteen," he said. She'd just had a birthday last week. He'd bought her a stuffed giraffe. "She's fifteen.

This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, "I'm lookin' for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.' He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. 'The bartender says, "What's he wanted for?" And the sheriff says, "Rustling.

Violence never worked in the service of women.