Criminal Quotes

“Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“. . . he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“injustice was never more tragic than when you found it knocking at your own door.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days—how much better things had been before the coloreds ruined everything. What they didn’t acknowledge was that the things that made it bad for them made it better for everyone else.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone—no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin—was equally maligned.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“lunch and do some”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Will’s life was complicated enough right now without Sara putting him on the spot.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Look ’round you, bitch.” He held out his hands. “They let a black man run this world ’fore they let a slit do.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“He had never brought home a school report and watched his mother smile. The clay ashtray he’d made in kindergarten had been one of sixteen Mrs. Flannigan received on Mother’s Day. All the Christmas gifts under the tree were labeled “for a girl” or “for a boy.” The evening Will graduated high school, he’d looked out at the crowd of cheering families and seen only strangers.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“And then she had suggested that instead of going to the barber, they go into the bedroom and do something so filthy that Will had experienced a few seconds of hysterical blindness.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“The word ‘autopsy’ means, literally, ‘to see for oneself.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Ben Hecht said, “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of a clock.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“The worst part was that she was turning into one of those annoying people who got so caught up whining about a bad situation that they forgot they were actually capable of doing something about it.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Well, it’s not like the good guys are lining up to date a cop, and I’m certainly not attracted to the type of useless asshole who’d want to marry a female police officer.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“Para conocer los efectos de largo alcance del sistema de género/sexo, primero se debe desmantelar la hipótesis fálica en relación con el inconsciente.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal

“I’m fine.” Will put his hand on Amanda’s foot again. He could feel a steady pulse near her ankle. He’d worked for this woman most of his career but still knew very little about her. She lived in a condo in the heart of Buckhead. She had been on the job longer than he had been alive, which put her age in the mid-sixties. She kept her salt-and-pepper hair coiffed in the shape of a football helmet and wore pantyhose with starched blue jeans. She had a sharp tongue, more degrees than a college professor, and she knew that his name was Wilbur even though he’d had it legally changed when he entered college and every piece of paper the GBI had on file listed his legal name as William Trent.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal