The Kept Woman Quotes

“Forever was never as long as you thought it was.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“If you love someone, you don’t go out of your way to hurt them. You don’t torture them. You don’t terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That’s not how love works. It’s not how normal people work.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“It’s the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Their husbands were not attracted to the groupies because they were hotter than their wives. They were attracted to them because they were groupies. It was a hell of a lot more fun to be with somebody who thought you were perfect than it was to be with a woman who wouldn’t put up with your shit.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“badness doesn’t come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And then you realize that the more you hurt them, the better you feel. So you keep hurting them, and they keep hanging on, and the years roll by and you convince yourself that the fact that they still stand by you means that the pain you cause is okay.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“He shrugged. “Are you going to answer me?” “You told me to shut up.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Rippy’s. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Faith groaned. Men had it so easy. When they got mad at each other, they fought it out. Women cut themselves and gave each other eating disorders.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“I remember that first time I squirted her, she panicked and ran to me for comfort. She clung to me, and I petted her until she calmed down. That’s how I was with Kenny. That’s how you were with Angie.” Amanda said this with conviction. “It’s the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“but I chose to believe everything that came out of Kenny’s mouth. I’d invested so many years of my life in him that I couldn’t admit that I was wrong. I was terrified of looking like a fool.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it’s pills, sometimes it’s Jesus, and sometimes it’s a fist.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“More women are murdered by their intimate partners than by any other group.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“That’s how it’s been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“At least she knew where she fell on his list of priorities: right behind Betty.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“I didn’t know how to be with a man who wanted to be with me.” The softness had drained away. “I was addicted to Kenny’s uncertainty, that niggling little doubt in my gut that made me wonder if I could survive without him. I thought I could fix the pain inside of him. It took me a long time to realize that the pain was inside of me.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“There was only one Peyton Manning.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Kids like that didn’t live the lives they wanted. They survived the lives they had.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Going outside was like walking straight into the mouth of a yawning dog.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“That man needs to build a bridge to get over himself.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Come on, Mitchell.” Collier was like a puppy nipping at her heels. “I know you checked me out. What’d your mom say?” Faith made an educated guess. “That you’re cocky and prone to mistakes.” He grinned. “I knew she’d remember me.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“I hate rape cases. You don’t throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, ‘Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Right. And when we asked the other inmates why she did it, they said that girls had been stealing her stuff. Not just her commissary. She’d put down a pen and the next thing she knows, it’s missing. She’d take off her socks and they’d disappear. They even stole her trash. Why do you think they did that?’ He shrugged. ‘To be mean.’ ‘To make her understand that nothing belonged to her. That no matter how important or inconsequential, they could take away anything at any time, and she couldn’t do anything about it.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Will had underestimated the man’s doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Faith gripped the steering wheel. “I hate rape cases. You don’t throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, ‘Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman