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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.
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Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.
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Or any number of the jobs she'd tried and failed at before seeing a story in The Atlanta Journal about women police officers being trained for motorcycle patrol. Motorcycle patrol! Kate laughed at her naivete. If the firearms instructors were loath to train women, the motorcycle division was downright hostile to the idea of women on bikes. The riding instructor wouldn't even allow them inside the garage.
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Karin Slaughter |
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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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Karin Slaughter |
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Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone--no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin--was equally maligned.
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Karin Slaughter |
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children always have different parents, even in the same family.
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Karin Slaughter |
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If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Charlie had always told Lenore things that she would never admit to anyone else. Lenore had known Rusty for over fifty years. She was a black hole into which all of the Quinn family secrets disappeared.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Hope' is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune without the words/And never stops-at all.
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Karin Slaughter |
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He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.
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Karin Slaughter |
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All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.
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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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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.
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feminist
friend-zone
rejection
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Your mother was not surprised to hear me say this. This was a time when the pendulum of hope still swung back and forth between us, so that some days she took to her bed with sorrow and some days she came home from the store with a shirt or a sweater or a pair of jeans that she would give you when you returned home to us.
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If you love someone, you don't go out of your way to hurt them. You don't torture them. You don't terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That's not how love works. It's not how normal people work.
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Are you not answering because you don't want me to know or are you not answering because you want to annoy me? That is a complicated question with an equally complicated answer.
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Sua mae e eu sempre ficavamos muito satisfeitos, em segredo, com o fato de voce ser tao determinada e intensa em relacao a suas causas. Quando voce foi embora, entendemos que essas eram as qualidades que definem os homens como espertos e ambiciosos e as mulheres como um problema.
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Dad. I knew that was it. No more holding my hand. No more sitting in my lap. No more throwing your arms around my waist when I walked through the front door or standing on my shoes while we danced around the kitchen. I would be the bank now. The ride to your friend's house. The critic of your biology homework. The signature on the check mailed away with your college application.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understand. Friends I will never meet. Passions I will never share. You have a life. You have an entire world in front of you.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department."
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That's when you fall in love with somebody. The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him--that's passion. It's borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out. You know that, Liddie. That high never, ever lasts. But being in that hospital, taking care of him, I started to realize that what I had with Paul, what I thought I had, that was more than love. That was being in love. It was so t..
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Karin Slaughter |
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There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.
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Men can always reinvent themselves," Laura said. "For women, once you're a mother, you're always a mother." --
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It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it's your heart that needs looking after.
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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."
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Karin Slaughter |
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People did not change their basic, core personalities.
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Karin Slaughter |
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I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.
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Karin Slaughter |
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popcorn-textured ceiling. What was
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En eso consistia la vida: nunca te das cuenta de lo que pasa hasta que te detienes un momento para observarlo con calma.
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Karin Slaughter |
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That is called paralipsis, or, from the Greek, apophasis," Rusty informed her. "A rhetorical device by which you add emphasis to a subject by professing to say little or nothing about it." He was tapping his foot with glee. "Also, a rhetorical relative of irony, whom I believe you went to school with."
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Karin Slaughter |
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She would never feel another man's touch without wondering whether or not she could really trust him.
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Karin Slaughter |
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Will had underestimated the man's doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement.
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A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.
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Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.
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She had always believed--vehemently, with great conviction--that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.
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What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways , it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive....Or not, in some cases.... ....Sounds a lot like being shot in the head.
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Redneck alarm," Charlie told her. You couldn't step foot in the Holler without a hundred dogs howling your arrival. The deeper in you went, the more young white men you'd see standing on their front porches, one hand holding their cell phone and the other under their shirt rubbing their belly."
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Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you."
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Karin Slaughter |
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Charlie watched her husband's boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.
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Karin Slaughter |
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expected him to look like a cross between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn.
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Karin Slaughter |
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conversations, and not
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Karin Slaughter |
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who didn't know how to use a shotgun?
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Okay. Good.' He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take
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