Pretty Girls Quotes

“It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“There is kindness in so many unexpected places”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Dyadic completion,” Paul would’ve told Claire. “The human brain tends to assume that, if there’s a victim, there has to be a villain.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’re attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Proactive interference,” Paul would have explained. “It’s when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers.

"The biggest fantasy in that book," Paul had said, "is that he changes in the end.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“That doesn’t sound invisible to me.” “I’m saying it wrong, then.” Lydia searched for a better way to explain. “She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could’ve been top in her class, but she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Everest because winning would bring too much attention.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understand. Friends I will never meet. Passions I will never share. You have a life. You have an entire world in front of you.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“He had always said there was nothing that a list couldn’t solve. Conquer the details and you conquer the problem.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls