The Last Widow Quotes

“Crime was never more egregious than when it victimized a lowly politician.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Dash was a stupid man’s idea of how a smart man sounded.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“He sat on the bed beside Carter. He tried one-handed to press Carter’s finger to the home button on the phone. Beau said, “Won’t work when they’re dead. You need a capacitance signal in your skin to activate the ring. Gotta have a heartbeat to make that happen.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Never share a bathroom with a man.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Violence never worked in the service of women.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“People didn’t believe in you unless you convinced them that you believed in yourself.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“I’ve put up with a lot of shit in my life, but I’ve never gotten shit because of the color of my skin. I’m sick of things only being fair for some people. It’s not right. It’s not American.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“giggling.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Abuse is always with you. It’s in the DNA of your shadow. You turn around, and it’s never not there. All you can do is learn to live with it.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Eleven was an important age, a so-called benchmark year, the point at which children had attained roughly 50 percent of the power. You had to start negotiating rather than simply ordering them around. Which was very well-reasoned in the abstract but in practice was terrifying.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“caught in a Scarlett O’Hara loop of promising herself that she would think about it tomorrow.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Which was a damn good thing, because if another human being treated you the way a toddler did—threw food in your face, questioned your every move, unraveled all of the aluminum foil off the roll, yelled at the silverware, made you clean shit off their ass, peed in your bed, peed in your car, peed on you while you were cleaning up their pee, demanded that you repeat everything at least sixteen times and then screeched at you for talking too much—then you would probably kill them.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Dash was a horrible person, but men tended to be horrible in predictable ways. A furious woman was capable of inflicting immense psychological damage, the kind that stuck around long after the wounds healed.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“You were still trying to figure out what to do with all the rage and lust and anger that sparked up like a forest fire for no reason. Will had been exactly like them at that age—so damn desperate for someone to show him how to be a man.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“The triple point of water was indisputably the basis of the definition for the kelvin.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Faith had to nip this in the bud. “Listen, I’ve spent the last twenty years of my life raising children. There is not one item of clothing in my closet or in a drawer that isn’t stained with some kind of fluid. I cheat at Chutes and Ladders. I have sacrificed my own son’s life to win at Fortnite. I will destroy any stupid moron who claims that Jodie Whittaker isn’t the best Doctor Who, and I will quote every single line from Frozen until your eyes start to bleed.” He”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“I’ve got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken’s ass and wait.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“She had a hard time believing a woman who had gone to nursing school would risk her children’s lives over repeatedly disproven pseudoscience and the word of a former Playboy model. If anyone wanted a real-life documentation of the vital necessity of vaccines, they should look to the life of Helen”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow

“Not realizing until exactly 3:12 this morning, that the reason toy box smelled like rotten fruit roll ups is because Emma was hiding all her fruit roll ups in the bottom. Toddler are such fucking assholes.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Last Widow