We Are All Guilty Here Quotes

“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

“Women don’t lead. Men do. They’re the hunters. We’re the gatherers. They’re our protectors. We gotta let them protect us.” “Who do we need them to protect us from?” “What’s that?” Emmy summoned her best Myrna. “From whom do women need protection”
― 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

“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

“but the thing about controlling parents is that they are teaching their children how to be controlled,”
― 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

“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

“When people die”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Jude had not found the girls and young women that Freddy Henley had murdered. She had found their bones. Their ashes. Their broken teeth. Her quest was never about reuniting a parent with a lost child. It was to give their parents something that Jude had never had: a place to bury their grief.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“And then Jude had promised her parents that she wouldn’t step foot back in Clifton County until they were both dead.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“They’d framed it as a choice”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“A split second. A quick reaction. A fatal moment in time. Losing a precious thing. Holding onto a bad marriage. Trying to protect a child. Emmy knew exactly what that felt like. She also knew that mistakes could be a reason to forgive.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“If you’re looking for people to blame”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“I know”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Emmy’s hand went to her mouth”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“The phone number that appeared multiple times in Walton Huntsinger’s call logs belonged to Virgil. Wite-Out had been used to alter the number so that it could not be traced back to Virgil. None of the real evidence had been processed through the system. There were no stamps. No notations. The evidence had been sitting inside a box that only Virgil had access to.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“It belonged to Virgil Ingram. Emmy looked at the old photocopier that was pushed against the wall. The ancient dot-matrix printer. The early 2000s Dell desktop. Everything a person would need to tamper with evidence before Bates stamping the faked documents and scanning them into the police server.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Emmy didn’t respond this time”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Loner. Volatile temper. Dangerous. It was like he’d googled the signs of psychopathy. She said”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Emmy noted his inflection on the word loner.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“Emmy caught the injection of pathos. She could see the game he played so clearly now. He leaned into his earnestness”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“There’s more,” Jude said. “I had Cole look up the tires on the Audi A4. They use the same brand Michelin all-weather tires as the Jetta.” “That’s why the treads were consistent with”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“It’s him.” Emmy couldn’t believe the words that were coming out of her own mouth. “It was him all the time.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“There was dead silence on the line. Emmy said”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“It was the exact same wallet that Brett had taken out of Adam’s back pocket and dropped on the kitchen counter moments ago.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here

“An Android phone. A red nylon man’s wallet with the Georgia Bulldogs logo. Emmy suddenly tensed. The tickle. The bad feeling. The Don’t Feel Right.”
― Karin Slaughter, We Are All Guilty Here