“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“His words hung between them, and Faith tried to pin down when exactly their relationship had gone from cooly professional to personal. There was something so kind about him under his awkward manners and social ineptness. Despite her best intentions, Faith realised that she could not hate Will Trent.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“You don’t kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“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, quote from Fractured
“It was getting to be so ridiculous, she was surprised there weren't special schools for the boring, average children.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“In Abigail’s experience, women certainly loved their mothers, but there was always some kind of thing that lived between them. Envy? History? Hate? This thing, whatever it was, made girls gravitate toward their fathers. For his part, Hoyt Bentley had relished spoiling his only child. Beatrice, Abigail’s mother, had resented the lost attention. Beautiful women did not like competition, even if it was from their own daughters.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fractured
“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.”
― Osho, quote from The Mustard Seed: The Gnostic Teachings of Jesus The Mystic
“After two hours of the hardest”
― Ed Viesturs, quote from K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
“a try. Let’s make it to the kitchen first, huh? Four-year-olds could still be distracted by cookies. Jennie looked up as they entered the kitchen. “Hello, my boys! You’re just in time.” She held out two cookies, still steaming. “Fresh out of the oven.” Aervyn bit into his and danced around like an Irish step dancer on speed. “Hot, hot, hot!” Jennie laughed. “Hasn’t anyone taught you a cookie-cooling spell yet?” “Oh.” Aervyn giggled. “I didn’t think of that.” He waved a hand”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“He can trade me to a team below five hundred if he wants to, or worse, I could find myself wearing a duck on my sweater.”
― Rachel Gibson, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge. ”
― Reif Larsen, quote from The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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