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Quotes About Love

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.
~ Karin Slaughter
You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
~ Karin Slaughter
That's what love is, Sara, when there are so many things about you that you only want one person in the world to know.
~ Karin Slaughter
To explain that she knew how marriages worked, understood the petty grievances that could build up. She should tell Charlie that it didn't matter. That if you loved someone, you should do everything you could to make it work because the person you adored more than anyone else in the world could complain of a sore throat one day and be dead the next.
~ Karin Slaughter
If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.
~ Karin Slaughter
That's when you fall in love with somebody. The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him—that's passion. It's borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out. You know that, Liddie. That high never, ever lasts.
~ Karin Slaughter
You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.
~ Karin Slaughter
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. I
~ Karin Slaughter
You don't kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
~ Karin Slaughter
Paul still had feelings for Claire—at least inasmuch as he was capable of feeling anything. He had put the pillow under her head. He'd slid her wedding ring back on her finger. He had taken off her shoes. He had charged the Tesla. All of these things had taken time, which meant that Paul placed importance on them. Instead of rushing Lydia out the door, he had risked exposure by taking care of Claire.
~ Karin Slaughter
He was safe because she would never really give all of herself to him.
~ Karin Slaughter
Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept
~ Karin Slaughter
matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You
~ Karin Slaughter
She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage.
~ Karin Slaughter
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints/I love thee with the breath/Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose/I shall but love thee better after death.
~ Karin Slaughter
end when they die. It only gets stronger." He winked
~ Karin Slaughter
Ipak, nije mogla a da se ne zapita zašto muškarac kojeg želi nije slobodan, a onoga koji to jest ne želi. I tako se nastavila njezina misija da si život pretvori u televizijsku sapunicu.
~ Karin Slaughter
You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?
~ Karin Slaughter
I want you to know what it's like to fall in love with somebody, to stay awake at night thinking you're going to die if you don't have them. All he could say was, I've stayed awake plenty of nights thinking about you. Worrying about me, she corrected. I'm not an old pair of shoes you can wear for the rest of your life just because they're comfortable.
~ Karin Slaughter
Which is the best gift I ever gave my daughter.
~ Karin Slaughter
She wanted to talk to the stranger who had kidnapped her son, to beg him to give her her Johnny back. She knew her baby was in there somewhere, and she would not give up.
~ Karin Slaughter
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.
~ Karin Slaughter
There's a difference between needing to be saved and asking somebody who cares about you for help.
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire picked up the picture. They were at a football game. Paul's jacket was wrapped around her shoulders. She could recall thinking how warm it felt, how reassuring. The camera had captured her laughing, mouth open, head tilted back. Ecstatically, irrevocably happy.
~ Karin Slaughter