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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. — Karin Slaughter

He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family. — Karin Slaughter

But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines. — Karin Slaughter

I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. — Karin Slaughter

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something. — Karin Slaughter

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. — Karin Slaughter

Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments. — Karin Slaughter

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter

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

Reading is power. Reading is life. — Karin Slaughter

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun. — Karin Slaughter

I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist. — Karin Slaughter

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

It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose. — Karin Slaughter

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. — Karin Slaughter

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. — Karin Slaughter

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. — Karin Slaughter

She had felt capable of anything. — Karin Slaughter

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. — Karin Slaughter

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

Jeffrey felt too blindsided — Karin Slaughter

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

Broken:
Never underestimate the power of a shared history. — Karin Slaughter

I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire. — Karin Slaughter

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

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole." "Is that what you call your vagina?" Claire chuckled under her breath. — Karin Slaughter

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework. — Karin Slaughter

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

I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him. — Karin Slaughter

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

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. — Karin Slaughter

I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation). — Karin Slaughter

Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow. — Karin Slaughter

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

He was safe because she would never really give all of herself to him." "I — Karin Slaughter

A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.

Even if it is a Chihuahua. — Karin Slaughter

He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up. — Karin Slaughter

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her. — Karin Slaughter

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. — Karin Slaughter

Sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls. — Karin Slaughter

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers. — Karin Slaughter

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. — Karin Slaughter

The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole. — Karin Slaughter

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. — Karin Slaughter

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her — Karin Slaughter

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. — Karin Slaughter

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception. — Karin Slaughter

She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector. — Karin Slaughter

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are. — Karin Slaughter

I'm not somebody who believes in evil. — Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. — Karin Slaughter

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog. — Karin Slaughter

Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable — Karin Slaughter

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime. — Karin Slaughter

Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman. — Karin Slaughter

You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job. — Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' — Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to historical fiction. — Karin Slaughter

Forever was never as long as you thought it was. — Karin Slaughter

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

Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar. — Karin Slaughter

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

Why did it have to be her? — Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. — Karin Slaughter

It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane. — Karin Slaughter

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. — Karin Slaughter

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you. — Karin Slaughter

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis. — Karin Slaughter

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. — Karin Slaughter

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena — Karin Slaughter

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time — Karin Slaughter

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. — Karin Slaughter

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. — Karin Slaughter

Place. This is how — Karin Slaughter

Slicing off your retinas and sticking them into — Karin Slaughter

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter

cunt on the blackboard. — Karin Slaughter

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves. — Karin Slaughter

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive. — Karin Slaughter

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever. — Karin Slaughter

Older and she always got to drive. She opened — Karin Slaughter

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' — Karin Slaughter

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring. — Karin Slaughter

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. — Karin Slaughter