Quotes from Triptych

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

Even if it is a Chihuahua.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“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, quote from Triptych

“Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman’s voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn’t discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn’t last for long because generally they started doing something about it.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“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, quote from Triptych

“the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn’t settle for less than they were worth. They’d just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“Michael swallowed, feeling like he was choking on his grief. “Fifteen,” he said. She’d just had a birthday last week. He’d bought her a stuffed giraffe. “She’s fifteen.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“She glanced down the hallway, but Angie didn’t want to go into the bedrooms. She didn’t want to see where Michael screwed his wife, know that this was the place where he probably beat Gina. Had”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter’s.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“but I met him once and he’s super”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“It didn’t take a Harvard economist to figure out that it’d be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“Amanda was probably in her mid-fifties, a small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's. She wore a simple diamond ring on her wedding finger, though Will knew she wasn't currently married. She had no children, or perhaps she had eaten them when they were young.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“According to a local news team investigation, response times to emergency calls from Grady averaged around forty-five minutes. An ambulance took even longer.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

“Will thought of her time away from work the way he used to think of his schoolteachers crawling into their caves under the school building at night, lulling themselves to sleep with dreams of torturing their students the next day.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Triptych

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