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We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1) We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
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“A man has to prove himself once. A woman has to prove herself every day.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“You can’t choose something if you don’t know you have a choice.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“They should call it fuckapause, because you run out of all the fucks you can give.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“How did I do?” “You did great,” Celia said. “I wish I could wear eyeshadow again. I get in front of the mirror and it’s like trying to draw crayon on a ballsac.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Madison will always be trapped between those two people. The woman we didn’t get to meet, and the girl we used to know.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Virgil had joked about how raising girls could kill a man, but he had no idea how fucking hard it was to grow yourself into a woman.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Small men can’t handle grown women. They go after girls because most girls are pliable and desperate for outside approval. At that age, you’ll do almost anything for attention, even if it feels bad and you know it’s wrong.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“When people die, your relationship with them doesn’t end. You find new ways to connect with them.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“but the thing about controlling parents is that they are teaching their children how to be controlled,”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Every kid gets a different set of parents”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Emmy regretted not beating Jack to death with his own pocket pussy when she had the chance.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Maps and mistakes. That's what caught Freddy Henley. That's what catches a lot of these guys. Ted Bundy was stopped on a moving violation, Son of Sam got a parking ticket, BTK used the wrong computer. It's not that investigators are particularly clever, it's that the bad guys panic and make stupid mistakes.”
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“Even a caged animal doesn’t forget how to hunt.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“tell clients they can get a case solved here, but if they need a perm, they’ll have to go into town.”
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“You can’t put a person in one box, Emmy Lou, especially when they get older. You’ve gotta judge them by the totality of their lives. You do bad shit when you’re young that you regret. You do good shit when you’re old that you hope makes up for it.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“The second Madison hit twelve, we started fighting. Swear to God, all she did was sit around trying to think of ways to make me feel like shit.” Hannah was smiling, but Emmy could recall the exquisite torture of Madison’s insults. “Then out of nowhere, she’d drop a compliment, like say that my dress was pretty, or my hair looked good, and I’d feel like I won the fucking lottery.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here
“Okay.”
Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here