Fallen Quotes

“A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“I told him before all of this happened was that holding on to that kind of grudge was like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Will let out a long breath. "She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again."
"Where does she go?"
"I have no idea."
"You've never asked her?"
"No."
Sara Didn't pretend to understand. "Why not?".
He glanced out into the street, watching the traffic zoom by. "It's complicated.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“It’s always sad when someone dies of a cliché.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“You can’t fool someone who doesn’t want to be fooled.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Just about every gang in America had started as a group of minorities, be they Irish, Jewish, Italian, or other, banding together for survival. It generally took a couple of years before they started doing worse than was done to them.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“You can’t throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days.” She sighed. “If only we had more bricks.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“1960s suitcases, not the modern wheelie kinds that people nowadays used to pack their entire houses in for a weekend trip to the mountains.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“exactly the personality type that men like”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“into a trunk sounded more like the kind of idea Amanda would have. Painful. Humiliating. Bound to end badly for Will. He must’ve had some sort of death wish. Or maybe he just wanted to spend a couple of hours simmering in the heat because it was the only way he’d have time to think about what he’d gotten himself into. And he didn’t mean the car. Will had never smoked a cigarette. He’d never done an illegal drug of any kind. He hated the taste of alcohol. As a kid, he’d seen how addictions could ruin lives, and as a cop, he saw how it could end them. He’d never been tempted to imbibe. He’d never understood how people could be so desperate for the next high that they were willing to trade away their lives and everything that mattered for another hit. They stole. They prostituted themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Will had been trapped in the car so long with Amanda that he was worried he was going to develop Stockholm syndrome.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Sara was beginning to think she was the problem. She was turning into the Mr. Darcy of Atlanta. Once her good opinion was lost, it was gone forever. Changing the direction of a steamship was easier than changing Sara's mind.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Will let out a breath he felt like he’d been holding his entire life.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Trust in the Lord to look over her. ‘Lean not into thine own understanding.’ ”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“At any given time in the U.S. penal system, at least half the inmate population have been diagnosed with some kind of mental illness.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Did you know that Bayer used to own the trademark for heroin?” She shook her head at the subterfuge. “The aspirin company?” “They lost the trademark after World War I. It’s in the Treaty of Versailles.” “You learn something new every day.” “Sears used to sell preloaded syringes of heroin in their catalogue. A buck fifty for two.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Ipak, nije mogla a da se ne zapita zašto muškarac kojeg želi nije slobodan, a onoga koji to jest ne želi. I tako se nastavila njezina misija da si život pretvori u televizijsku sapunicu.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“when she got out of her car. Faith hadn’t realized that something was wrong until well after the music stopped. Will let her run through the story—the torn-up house, the dead man she’d found and the two that she had killed herself. When she was finished, he played it all back in his head, seeing Faith standing in the carport by the shed, going back to her car. Despite her recent medical issues, her memory seemed crystal clear now. She had called dispatch, and then she had gotten her gun. Will felt this detail picking at a spot in his brain. Faith knew that Will was home today. They had talked about it yesterday afternoon. She was complaining about having to go do computer training, and he told her he was going to wash his car and take care of the yard. Will lived 2.3 miles away from where they were sitting. He could’ve gotten here in under five minutes. But Faith hadn’t called him.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Dušo, znam da imaš posla i znam da će biti opasno, ali u što god da se danas uvališ, neće biti ni približno tako opasno po život kao ono što će se dogoditi ako mi ikad više napraviš ono što si mi radio sinoć i nakon toga zaključiš da se drugo jutro možeš izvući sa rukovanjem. Dobro?”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“She asked, “Was that really your dinner—two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut?” “Four doughnuts.” “What does your cholesterol look like?” “I guess it’s white like what they show in the commercials.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen