339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.

I wil tell you something very important: there is value in forgiveness.

Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.

Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he’d gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn’t say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.

I’m sold as a literary writer in Holland; I’m sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

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.

Forever was never as long as you thought it was.

The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’re attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.