Top 200 Karin Slaughter Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.”

— Karin Slaughter

52. “Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”

— Karin Slaughter

53. “I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.”

— Karin Slaughter

54. “Love doesn’t keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.”

— Karin Slaughter

55. “Every place always has somebody who doesn’t fit in. That’s what makes them fit in.”

— Karin Slaughter

56. “I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My “useless gallimaufry,” your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.”

— Karin Slaughter

57. “Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”

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58. “Dogs are stupid,” Rusty said. “This is a known fact. But a cat – you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and – ” He snapped his fingers. “That’s what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.”

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

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61. “Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it’s pills, sometimes it’s Jesus.”

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62. “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.”

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

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64. “Proactive interference,” Paul would have explained. “It’s when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.”

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65. “Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone – no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin – was equally maligned.”

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66. “Existe gentileza em muitos lugares inesperados.”

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67. “A possum stared at me through the door all night.” “That’s Bill.” Charlie turned on the giant television. “He’s my lover.”

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68. “Your mother was not surprised to hear me say this. This was a time when the pendulum of hope still swung back and forth between us, so that some days she took to her bed with sorrow and some days she came home from the store with a shirt or a sweater or a pair of jeans that she would give you when you returned home to us.”

— Karin Slaughter

69. “A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.”

— Karin Slaughter

70. “Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.”

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71. “Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.”

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72. “You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.”

— Karin Slaughter

73. “He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.”

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74. “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.”

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75. “Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman’s voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn’t discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn’t last for long because generally they started doing something about it.”

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76. “No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.”

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

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78. “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.”

— Karin Slaughter

79. “Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.”

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80. “No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.”

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81. “Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.”

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82. “Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation’s sovereignty.”

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83. “Kantor’s Andersonville,” she said, adding, “It’s a first edition.”

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84. “He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.”

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85. “It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.”

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86. “It’s very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.”

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87. “There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.”

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88. “This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, “I’m lookin’ for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.’ He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. ‘The bartender says, “What’s he wanted for?” And the sheriff says, “Rustling.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your ‘to-be-read’ pile.”

— Karin Slaughter

91. “This women’s lib stuff works for rich girls, but all you’ve got going for you is your face and your figure. You need to take advantage of both before you lose them.”

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92. “To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers.”

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93. “I’m not somebody who believes in evil.”

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94. “He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.”

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95. “Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.”

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96. “It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn’t right under your nose.”

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97. “Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.”

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

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99. “It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it’s your heart that needs looking after.”

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100. “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.’ ” “The Golden Rule,” Charlie said. “Do unto others as they do unto you.”

— Karin Slaughter