Top 100 Karin Quotes
#1. From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
Justina Chen
#2. I dont know why i'm so afraid to lose you when you're not even mine
Karin
Nurilla Iryani
#3. One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
Ingmar Bergman
#4. You would think that Rosemary would understand that. She should have understood what such a choice said - that Karin was not to be made happy, amends were not possible, forgiveness was out of the question.
Alice Munro
#5. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
Karin Slaughter
#6. Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#7. Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.
Karin Slaughter
#8. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#9. My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter
#10. I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#11. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#12. You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time
Karin Slaughter
#13. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#14. 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?
Karin Slaughter
#15. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#16. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Karin Slaughter
#17. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.
Karin Slaughter
#19. If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Karin Gillespie
#20. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#21. Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
Karin Slaughter
#22. I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).
Karin Slaughter
#23. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#24. Why are you smiling?" she asked.
I kissed the inside of her wrists and answered what I felt at that moment was the absolute truth. "Because everything is perfect."
This is what I know that I am:
A fool.
Karin Slaughter
#25. When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
Karin Slaughter
#26. The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.
Karin Lowachee
#27. He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
Karin Slaughter
#28. She took a deep breath and asked, I'm sorry, Captain. I'm feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?
Karin Slaughter
#29. Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
Karin Slaughter
#30. When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter
#31. Her gun was twenty seconds away, her friends three minutes, and the police five minutes. Her choice was obvious.
Karin Kaufman
#32. Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable
Karin Slaughter
#33. It's very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.
Karin Slaughter
#34. When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
Karin Slaughter
#35. I would rather go for a life with love and good friendships than family and children.
Karin Rahbek
#36. Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger ... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#37. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#38. If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.
Karin Slaughter
#39. I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#40. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#41. Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter
#42. She'd passed sentence on God two years ago, and she fed her doubts of Him daily, taking care they didn't shrivel and die.
Karin Kaufman
#43. If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.
Karin Fossum
#44. Daddy would call you his brave soldier boy, and you would believe it. When they lifted you out of that hiding place and smiled at you so proud, you didn't feel like an eight-year-old at all.
Karin Lowachee
#45. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter
#46. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#48. As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
Karin Slaughter
#49. If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.
Karin Fossum
#50. ...and only if your wounds let me
I will stand beside you
in the black cold cave
and let fireflies nest my hair.
Karin Schimke
#52. It's a bitch on this ship, isn't it?' That got an unexpected smile out of the symp. Musey had two dimples on his cheeks that made him look about half his chronological age.
Karin Lowachee
#53. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
Karin Slaughter
#54. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#55. I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
Karin Slaughter
#56. Something is lost, but a person does not know what it is; this feeling is indescribable in words, and therefore, it can be experienced only as the emptiness.
Karin Johannisson
#58. There is no hell after death to which your God can condemn us. We create our own hell here on earth by making the wrong choices. Life is not something that "happens to us" , it's something that we create and shape ourselves......
Karin Alvtegen
#59. If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
Karin Slaughter
#60. The sated day is never first
The best day is a day of thirst
Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path -
but it is the way that is the labour's worth.
Karin Boye
#61. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#62. But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines.
Karin Slaughter
#63. As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.
Karin Slaughter
#64. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#65. Sara studied him. "Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?"
"No, I'm just happy to see you"
Sara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.
Karin Slaughter
#66. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#67. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#68. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#70. It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
Karin Fossum
#71. Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Karin Slaughter
#72. I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter
#73. He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.
Karin Slaughter
#74. I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.
Karin Rahbek
#75. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#77. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#78. I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
Karin Slaughter
#79. The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
Karin Tansek
#80. Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.
Karin Rahbek
#82. I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
Karin Slaughter
#84. 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?
Karin Slaughter
#85. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#86. A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.
Even if it is a Chihuahua.
Karin Slaughter
#87. It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
Karin Slaughter
#88. Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#89. He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.
Karin Slaughter
#90. I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
Karin Fossum
#91. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#92. No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.
Karin Slaughter
#93. I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
Karin Slaughter
#94. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#95. Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.
Karin Slaughter
#96. 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
Karin Slaughter
#98. Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
Karin Fossum
#99. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
Karin Slaughter
#100. Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
Karin Slaughter
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