Top 100 Karin Slaughter Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#5. I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
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#8. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
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#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. 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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#12. 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.
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#13. No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.
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#14. 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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#15. He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#21. 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.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.
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#28. 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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#29. It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
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#33. The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.
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#34. Well, it's not like the good guys are lining up to date a cop, and I'm certainly not attracted to the type of useless asshole who'd want to marry a female police officer.
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#35. 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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#36. I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
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#37. Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
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#38. I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
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#39. He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.
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#40. You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
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#42. 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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#43. I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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#44. 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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#45. Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
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#46. Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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#47. 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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#48. Claire hates you now. She believes me. She will never, ever take you back.
We are never ever ever getting back together. Taylor Swift. How many times had Dee played that song after she caught Heath Carmichael cheating
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#49. [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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#51. 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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#52. When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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#53. 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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#54. Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable
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#55. 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.
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#56. Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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#57. 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?
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#58. He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
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#59. When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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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#62. I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).
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#63. Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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#64. 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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#66. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.
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#67. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time
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#72. 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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#73. My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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#74. 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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#75. 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.
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#77. 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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#78. Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines.
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#87. 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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#88. 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.
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#89. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
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#90. I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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#91. 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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#92. 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.'
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#94. 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.
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#96. 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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#97. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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#98. Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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#99. 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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#100. 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.
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