The Silent Wife Quotes

“big fan of food”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“thanatological”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“I’m Sara’s friend. The enemy of my friend is my nemesis.” “I don’t think that’s what Churchill said.” “He was only fighting Nazis. We’re talking about Lena Adams here.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“The time was already creeping up on three o’clock. Faith had been awake since three this morning. All she could think about right now was walking through her front door, taking off her bra and reading escalator fatality stories until it was dark enough to go to bed.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“You’re not happy unless you’re in a constant state of limerence.” “Limerence.” He tried to take some of the heat out of her tone. “Is this like when you said you wished that I was semelparous, and I was humiliated a second time because I had to look up the word?” She gave a begrudging smile. “It’s a state of infatuation. It’s how you feel when you first fall in love with someone. You’re obsessed with them. Euphoric. They’re all you can think about.” “Sounds great.” “It is, but then you have to take out the garbage and pay the bills and pretend you like your in-laws and that’s a relationship. Limerence gets you into it, but there’s got to be something else that keeps you there.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“Toddlers are like the worst inmates. When they're not lying to your face and tearing up your shit, they're napping, pooping, or trying to think of different ways to fuck with you.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife

“I promised my daughter I would introduce her to Detective Pikachu if she let me pee in privacy.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife