Top 200 Karin Slaughter Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “He felt about as useless as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.”

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102. “Rick shuffled through the cards again. “Where is the tallest mountain on earth?” Lydia put her hand over her eyes so she could concentrate. “You said tallest, not highest elevation, so it can’t be Everest.” She made some thinking noises that caused the dogs to stir. The cat started making biscuits on her stomach. She could hear the clock ticking in the kitchen. Finally, Rick said, “Think ukulele.” She peeked through her fingers. “Hawaii?” “Mauna Kea.”

— Karin Slaughter

103. “Did you know that Bayer used to own the trademark for heroin?” She shook her head at the subterfuge. “The aspirin company?” “They lost the trademark after World War I. It’s in the Treaty of Versailles.” “You learn something new every day.” “Sears used to sell preloaded syringes of heroin in their catalogue. A buck fifty for two.”

— Karin Slaughter

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

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105. “The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.”

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106. “Why is it that we always neglect the things that matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You.”

— Karin Slaughter

107. “He sat on the bed beside Carter. He tried one-handed to press Carter’s finger to the home button on the phone. Beau said, “Won’t work when they’re dead. You need a capacitance signal in your skin to activate the ring. Gotta have a heartbeat to make that happen.”

— Karin Slaughter

108. “All the sneakiness her sister had exhibited as a child had been honed to adult perfection, so that Claire could be standing right in front of an oncoming train and still insist that everything was going to be fine.”

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109. “If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.”

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

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111. “Will had underestimated the man’s doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement.”

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112. “I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.”

— Karin Slaughter

113. “She would never feel another man’s touch without wondering whether or not she could really trust him.”

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114. “Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling.”

— Karin Slaughter

115. “I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.”

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116. “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.”

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117. “That doesn’t sound invisible to me.” “I’m saying it wrong, then.” Lydia searched for a better way to explain. “She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could’ve been top in her class, but she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Everest because winning would bring too much attention.”

— Karin Slaughter

118. “I’m not choosing anybody but myself.′ Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.”

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119. “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.”

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

— Karin Slaughter

121. “I’ve always been drawn to historical fiction.”

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

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123. “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.”

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124. “Used to be, only bikers and outlaws had tattoos. They were so commonplace now that they weren’t even a statement. Unless the statement was, “Look, I’m like everybody else.” Her.”

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125. “As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.”

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126. “Why did it have to be her?”

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127. “Clair watched the young man pour Paul’s Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.”

— Karin Slaughter

128. “That’s the problem with life, Sam. If you’re not rising, you’re falling.”

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129. “Forever was never as long as you thought it was.”

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130. “The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat than an actual language.”

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131. “Anything’s legal if you can get away with it.” Maggie slammed the locker closed. “Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.”

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132. “Charlie had always told Lenore things that she would never admit to anyone else. Lenore had known Rusty for over fifty years. She was a black hole into which all of the Quinn family secrets disappeared.”

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

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134. “Violence never worked in the service of women.”

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135. “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.”

— Karin Slaughter

136. “You are my child. I am your mother.” Helen sounded resolute. “I won’t apologize for doing my job.”

— Karin Slaughter

137. “Rippy’s. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me.”

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138. “As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.”

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

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140. “Redneck alarm,” Charlie told her. You couldn’t step foot in the Holler without a hundred dogs howling your arrival. The deeper in you went, the more young white men you’d see standing on their front porches, one hand holding their cell phone and the other under their shirt rubbing their belly.”

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141. “She had told herself when she put on her sweatpants this morning that she was going to the gym, and she had gone near the gym, but only because there was a Starbucks in the parking lot.”

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

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143. “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.”

— Karin Slaughter

144. “Remember – the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

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145. “A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.”

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146. “Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.”

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147. “Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.”

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148. “He had given weight to her life, tied her down to the world when her natural inclination had always been to float above everything, as if it were happening to someone else.”

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149. “Reductio ad Hitlerum.” Claire couldn’t stop quoting Paul. “It’s when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.”

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150. “Charlie watched her husband’s boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.”

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