339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Love, like water, always flowed down the path of least resistance.

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.

Men can always reinvent themselves,” Laura said. “For women, once you’re a mother, you’re always a mother.

I’ve always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.

Maybe that’s why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn’t resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

You don’t understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can’t predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.

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

Why did it have to be her?

My point is that you see these people in a way that I will never see them. Your experiences are no longer my experiences. I can’t guide you any longer because I don’t know where you’re going.