Top 100 Karin Slaughter Quotes
#1. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
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#2. 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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#3. My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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#4. Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.
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#5. His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.
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#6. women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?
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#7. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.
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#9. Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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#10. I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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#11. When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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#12. He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
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#13. Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable
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#14. When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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#15. Somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.
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#16. I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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#17. My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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#19. I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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#20. I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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#22. If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.
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#23. 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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#24. It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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#25. She asked, "Was that really your dinner - two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut?" "Four doughnuts." "What does your cholesterol look like?" "I guess it's white like what they show in the commercials.
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#26. A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers.
"The biggest fantasy in that book," Paul had said, "is that he changes in the end.
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#27. Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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#29. I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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#30. Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.
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#31. Her hearing had faded out as soon as he'd touched her - maybe it was the angels playing harps or the exploding fireworks. Maybe her drink was too strong or her heart was too lonely.
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#32. I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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#34. Carver is a charming man with a soft voice that makes you believe he is always confiding in you. He is courteous and attentive, which I wonder about, because is this his natural disposition, or has he read too many novels about Hannibal Lecter?
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#35. Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.
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#36. A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.
Even if it is a Chihuahua.
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#37. He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.
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#38. In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it.
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#39. No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.
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#40. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
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#41. Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
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#43. I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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#44. I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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#45. In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.
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#47. [On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
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#48. I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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#49. Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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#50. Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
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#51. the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena
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#52. 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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#54. You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
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#55. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
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#56. I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
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#57. When your father died, I remember standing at his grave and thinking, This is the place where I can leave my grief. It wasn't immediately, of course, but I had somewhere to go, and every time I visited the cemetery, I felt like when I got back into my car, a tiny little bit of grief was gone.
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#58. You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
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#59. Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman.
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#60. I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
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#61. It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane.
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#62. 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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#63. If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.
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#64. I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
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#65. Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire
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#66. My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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#67. Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside.
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#68. Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.
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#69. Nancy's last sentence is on the last page in your file. There is nothing more we know. As the sheriff might say, we don't have anything farther.
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#70. This seemed to be how dads taught their boys to be men, but there had to be a point, maybe early on, when they were able to hold their hands. One tiny one engulfed by one big one.
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#71. I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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#72. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.
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#73. I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
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#74. She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector.
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#75. I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
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#76. 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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#77. Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
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#78. Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
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#79. Considering what Pauline's been through ... " Will began, then stopped himself. "She's not very nice."
"She's a cold-blooded bitch."
"I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.
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#81. I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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#82. 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
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#83. 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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#84. Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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#85. I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Broken:
Never underestimate the power of a shared history.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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#91. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
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#92. People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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#93. 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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#94. I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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#95. Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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#96. Claire stepped over a graveyard of cigarette butts as she followed him. The alley was T-shaped, intersecting with another service alley for the restaurants and shops. Hardly
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#97. Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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#98. 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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#99. Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.
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#100. I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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