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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4871b99 | tutor in the computer lab. Claire was an art history major. She had never been good at math. Or at least she'd never tried to be, which was the same thing. She could vividly remember the first time she'd sat down with Paul and gone over one of her assignments. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e472a6e | Or maybe Lexie already knew about Claire. Maybe the young little bitch was completely fine with sharing another woman's husband, with raising the man's bastard child--or children--while he kept another wife. Claire closed her eyes. What an awful thing to say about the other woman. She was turning Lexie into a monster when Paul had likely fooled them both. Even if Lexie was complicit in polygamy, there was no way she knew about the dreadful .. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c675f33 | Everyone knows you're beautiful," he'd told her, "but no one knows that you're clever." Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e5b5968 | older and she always got to drive. She opened | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 86f0c52 | My wife is for making babies. You're for fucking." The sting was unexpected. "That's an awful thing to say." "Trust me, one is a lot more fun than the other." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| a1cd012 | Claire hung up the phone. She thought about the hours she had spent with Adam Quinn. Hours she should've spent with her husband. Hours she would kill to have back now. There | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 865babd | dashboard. She didn't know the opening lyrics, but she belted out the chorus. " 'Poor, poor pitiful me!' " She nudged Maggie. " 'Poor, poor pitiful me!' " Maggie smiled despite herself. Gail bellowed, " 'Poor, poor pitiful me!' " | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 82e48d9 | 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 | ||
| 93e918f | Kate's knees felt shaky as she walked across the parking garage under the Barbizon Hotel. Every atom in her body was vibrating at a different frequency. Her lips felt swollen from Philip's kisses. Her breasts were tender from his mouth. If she closed her eyes, she could summon up the sensations of his tongue roaming up and down her body. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| bdc63dc | seemed to match the erratic | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9759bd1 | As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 1541539 | Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| b4a0ec1 | witnesses, | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d82710c | She knew what it was like to watch a bad person die, to feel their panic swell to crescendo, to watch the dawning in their eyes when they realized that they were completely powerless. To know that the last words they would ever hear were the ones you said to their face: that you saw through them, that you knew everything about them, that you were disgusted, that you did not love them, that you would never, ever forget. That you would never,.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 03de284 | The addict's credo: It's always somebody else's fault. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ea21a19 | More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 5e9d49f | Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e98b74e | gallimaufry | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 33fc71e | If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 29b9a0d | The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9367f82 | 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 | ||
| af8e3e0 | studying Lydia. "Are you really sure you want to see it?" For the first time, Lydia felt real trepidation about the movies." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| da699f9 | I'm fine." Will put his hand on Amanda's foot again. He could feel a steady pulse near her ankle. He'd worked for this woman most of his career but still knew very little about her. She lived in a condo in the heart of Buckhead. She had been on the job longer than he had been alive, which put her age in the mid-sixties. She kept her salt-and-pepper hair coiffed in the shape of a football helmet and wore pantyhose with starched blue jeans. S.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 0664877 | This is where feminism had gotten her: locked in the back of a sticky squad car with the skirt on her tennis dress riding up her thighs. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 48dec09 | They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| b7f608b | But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| dac7627 | Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable" | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 590466b | I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 5eee930 | It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 7b3157d | snorted coke because a boyfriend told her | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 34e2cfc | When your father died, I remember standing at his grave and thinking, This is the place where I can leave my grief. It wasn't immediately, of course, but I had somewhere to go, and every time I visited the cemetery, I felt like when I got back into my car, a tiny little bit of grief was gone. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 3f3b774 | First you must have the images. Then come the words." --Robert James Waller. Images. I had seen that word before--at least six times before on my annual reading sojourn to the sheriff's office. The word was connected to a deed and the deed was connected to an act and that act had been committed by a man and that man, I now understood, was connected to you." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4910ece | but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 27e30f0 | No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace," | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4b3fb36 | these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 679994f | Anna's baby after Anna had been abducted. Then she'd gotten locked up and the kid was left alone. "If Lola was taking care of him," Will said, "she would need to get in and out of the building." The elevator doors slid open. Will saw a second cop standing with Simkov, the doorman. There was a darkening bruise underneath his eye and his eyebrow was split where it had been slammed against the hard marble counter. "That one." The doorman point.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ac9667f | She called him Bartleby, after the well-known scrivener: "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." I likened him more to some form of rat terrier: arrogant." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 672114e | chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9b05501 | 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 | ||
| c6b3c28 | Flowers in the Attic | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 33cd346 | herself, but what would she find? A kept woman who was incapable | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 2539e60 | Para conocer los efectos de largo alcance del sistema de genero/sexo, primero se debe desmantelar la hipotesis falica en relacion con el inconsciente. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 6901510 | I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d290192 | 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 |