Undone Quotes

“Considering what Pauline's been through . . ." Will began, then stopped himself. "She's not very nice."
"She's a cold-blooded bitch."
"I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Sara studied him. "Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?"
"No, I'm just happy to see you"
Sara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“And now, when she looked in the mirror and saw a new line on her own face,a new wrinkle, all she could think was that she was growing old without him”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren’t lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“he recognized Donald Trump’s picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn’t taken the man’s advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and declared bankruptcy, maybe he had.”
― Karin Slaughter, Genesis

“Love, like water, always flowed down the path of least resistance.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old colloquialism, the sort of thing you didn't think people still said.

The phrase fit Sara so completely that she had found herself surrendering to it, imagining her arms and her legs detaching from her body. What did it matter? What did she need arms or legs or hands or feet for if she couldn't run to him, hold him, touch him?”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he’d gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn’t say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“can’t”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“you should never fall in love with somebody you wouldn’t otherwise be friends with,”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“My mother always told me there’s a fine line between never and always.” He looked confused, and Sara explained, “Once you do something bad, it’s easier to do it again the next time, then the next time, and before you know it, you’re doing it all the time and it doesn’t bother your conscience.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Growing up, Pauline had been told that she should find an adult if she ever got lost, but these days, you never knew who that adult might be. A security guard might be a pedophile. A little old lady might be a batty witch who spent her spare time hiding razor blades in apples. It was a sad state of affairs when the safest help for a lost six-year-old boy was an inanimate object.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Days would pass without her even having to get into a car—the type of life she would have never dreamed of ten years ago.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Life was like that. You didn’t realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“you’re the good kid in the family, making good grades, staying out of trouble, et cetera, and your sister’s always screwing up and getting all the attention, you start to feel left out, like no matter how good you are, it doesn’t matter because all your parents can focus on is your crappy sibling.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will could still hear the compassionate tone Sara Linton had used as she explained how Zabel and taken her life. He could not remember the last time a woman had talked to him that way - tried to throw him a life vest instead of yelling at him to swim harder the way Faith did, or worse, grabbing onto his legs and pulling him farther down the way way Angie always tried.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“could see”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will couldn’t read the title, but he recognized Donald Trump’s picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn’t taken the man’s advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and declared bankruptcy, maybe he had.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“was”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“a study with one book on the shelves. Will couldn’t read the title, but he recognized Donald Trump’s picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn’t taken the man’s advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and declared bankruptcy, maybe he had.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“He shrugged. “It’s always the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the spring equinox.” Will took a minute to realize he was speaking English.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Families are complicated. People put up with a lot of shit because of blood.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will knew from Angie that the girls seldom got to keep any cash. The pimps took care of their living quarters, their food, their clothes. All the girls had to do was risk their lives and health every night by tricking whatever john pulled up with the right amount of cash. It was modern slavery, which was ironic, considering most if not all of the pimps were black.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Sara had once asked the woman why she didn’t go to medical school, only to be told that nurses were the ones who practiced the real medicine.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will wasn’t a fan of multitasking, mostly because it was more like half-tasking. It was humanly impossible to give two different things your complete attention.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“By state law, any unattended death—which is to say a person who dies outside of a hospital or nursing home—has to be investigated”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“but the emergency room was a young person’s game, the sort of place you ran screaming from before you hit your thirties.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone