Quotes from Karin Slaughter

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It's the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.

It was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, "Your hair looks nice," but what you heard was, "Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time.

That is complicated question with an equally complicated answer.

see this with abused children sometimes, where, as a form of self-defense, they've learned to read mood and nuance better than the typical child. They absorb an incredible amount of blame to keep the peace. They are the ultimate survivors.

Charlie had always told Lenore things that she would never admit to anyone else. Lenore had known Rusty for over fifty years. She was a black hole into which all of the Quinn family secrets disappeared.

They thought vengeance made it easier, when, in fact, all it did was fester the sorrow.

He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.

All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.

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

They only remembered the good times

God knew that Leigh had witnessed her share of brutality, but she felt a sudden vulnerability sitting in a small room with two loud men who were arguing about bitches while the horrific evidence of a savage sexual assault flashed across the screen.

I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.

How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?

Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman's voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn't discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn't last for long because generally they started doing something about it.

As she limped down the stairs, she considered all the drugs in her backpack. Tramadol, methadone, ketamine, buprenorphine. Mix them all into a pint of tequila and she could get a front-row seat to Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse talking about what a douche Jim Morrison could be.

He sat on the bed beside Carter. He tried one-handed to press Carter's finger to the home button on the phone. Beau said, "Won't work when they're dead. You need a capacitance signal in your skin to activate the ring. Gotta have a heartbeat to make that happen.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.

Even on Abigail's wedding day, Beatrice had told her daughter to be careful, that men were selfish creatures at their core, and there were only a handful of them who managed to overcome that natural inclination.

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special kind of love to change who you are inside.

It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.

Sometimes, all you could do was pray for the strength to carry on.

In that moment, Emily had desperately wanted her baby to be all right. Not out of duty. A child wasn't only a responsibility. It was an opportunity to love someone the way that she had never been loved. And for the first time in this whole shameful, humiliating, helpless process, Emily Vaughn knew without a doubt that she loved this baby.