339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Will had found out the hard way that it’s nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren’t lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

Neither of us will ever move forward if we are always looking back.

He had always said there was nothing that a list couldn’t solve. Conquer the details and you conquer the problem.

Dad. I knew that was it. No more holding my hand. No more sitting in my lap. No more throwing your arms around my waist when I walked through the front door or standing on my shoes while we danced around the kitchen. I would be the bank now. The ride to your friend’s house. The critic of your biology homework. The signature on the check mailed away with your college application.

Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.

Violence never worked in the service of women.

Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.

Dyadic completion,” Paul would’ve told Claire. “The human brain tends to assume that, if there’s a victim, there has to be a villain.