“It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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, quote from Pretty Girls
“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, quote from Pretty Girls
“Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“There is kindness in so many unexpected places”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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, quote from Pretty Girls
“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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, quote from Pretty Girls
“[...]"but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“That doesn’t sound invisible to me.” “I’m saying it wrong, then.” Lydia searched for a better way to explain. “She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could’ve been top in her class, but she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Everest because winning would bring too much attention.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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, quote from Pretty Girls
“Rick shuffled through the cards again. “Where is the tallest mountain on earth?” Lydia put her hand over her eyes so she could concentrate. “You said tallest, not highest elevation, so it can’t be Everest.” She made some thinking noises that caused the dogs to stir. The cat started making biscuits on her stomach. She could hear the clock ticking in the kitchen. Finally, Rick said, “Think ukulele.” She peeked through her fingers. “Hawaii?” “Mauna Kea.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“children always have different parents, even in the same family.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. “The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
“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”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
Born place: in The United States
Born date January 6, 2018
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“You have to do what your heart dictates," Vivian says.
"Do you believe that?"
"Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?”
― Anita Shreve, quote from Sea Glass
“A crude way to put the whole thing is that our presence culture is, both develeopmentally and historically, adolescent. And since adolescence is acknowledged to be the single most stressful and frightening period of human development – the stage when adulthood we claim to crave begins to present itself as a real and narrowing system of responsibilities and limitation (taxes, death) and when we yearn inside for a return to the same childish oblivion we pretend to scorn – it’s not difficult to see why we as a culture are so susceptible to art and entertainment whose primary function is escape, i. e. fantasy, adrenaline, spectacle, romance, etc.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“I saw the same joy, the same uncontrollable smile in the faces of a Nigerian earth mama, a thin-lipped Scottish granny and a pale correct Japanese businessman as they wheeled their trolleys in and recognised a figure in the expectant crowd. Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
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