Karin Slaughter famous quotes

07-18-2025

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Dog #Heart #My Heart
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Children #Book #Giving
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Wind #Gone #Cold
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Horrible
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Book #Albums #Chapters
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Writing #Wind #Southern
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Character #Obstacles #Southerner
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Home #Trying #Fans
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Children #Thinking #People
[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Home #Men
Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Sex #Interesting #Violence
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Wall #Twenties #Cockroaches
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. Itâ€™s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Book #Long #Gone
Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Valentine #Talking #Feet
You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Looks #Littles #Realizing
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Stupidity #Sometimes #Reason
I canâ€™tâ€”â€ Lena repeated. â€œI canâ€™t do it. I canâ€™t live without him.â€ Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jaredâ€™s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lenaâ€”really looked at her straight in the eye. â€œGood,â€ Sara told her. â€œNow you know how it feels.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Eye #Hands #Sides
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Reading #Way
You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time
-- Karin Slaughter

#Decision #Information
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Meg #Phantoms #My Favorite
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Clever #Smart #Order
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Historical #Fiction #Historical Fiction

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