After That Night (Will Trent, #11)

by Karin Slaughter

And at the end of the day, it’s easier to just shut up about it and try to live your life and hope—pray like hell—that it doesn’t come up, so you don’t have to deal with it again and again and again.”

“It’s funny how you never meet a white supremacist who’s also a feminist.”

“Give a man a parachute, he flies one time. Push a man out of an airplane, he flies for the rest of his life.”

One good thing about growing up in state care was that it taught you people had to figure out their own shit. You couldn’t do it for them.

Sometimes, the world could make you feel so numb that the only emotion that could cut through was pain.

Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad, but you’ll learn something from it. And that is a profound opportunity. Change tells you who you really are.”