339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

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.

He shrugged. “Are you going to answer me?” “You told me to shut up.

He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.

I think that people do things for a reason – that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.

I told him before all of this happened was that holding on to that kind of grudge was like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken’s ass and wait.

She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.