Anne

“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.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“Neither of us will ever move forward if we are always looking back.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“I roll my eyes even though he can’t see and I start to lightly wog. You know, the way you pretend to jog but it’s really no faster than walking, just bouncier? Yeah, that’s my goal. Fake it. I’m super good at wogging.”
― Raven Kennedy, Signs of Cupidity

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”
― Clifford Odets