Sara > Sara's Quotes

“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

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

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

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”
― Karin Slaughter

“It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fractured

“Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time”
― Karin Slaughter, Fractured

“It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“There is kindness in so many unexpected places”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Forever was never as long as you thought it was.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles