Kisscut Quotes

“Yeah?” “I miss the way you taste.” She tried to sound bored. “It’s still Colgate.” “That’s not the taste I was talking about.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“what she really wanted from him, needed from him, was to know that she could always pick up the phone and he would be there. That was all Lena had ever wanted from Hank. That was actually the one thing he had always given her.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, “I’m lookin’ for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.’ He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. ‘The bartender says, “What’s he wanted for?” And the sheriff says, “Rustling.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn’t right under your nose.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“He knew what it was like to be so empty that you took whatever people gave you.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“There was nothing more vicious than a teenage girl. Maybe it was because boys were more capable of settling an argument with their fists, but girls at this age were much more conniving and torturous than anyone wanted to believe.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“They sat like that, neither of them talking, both of them incapable of expressing how they felt, until Cathy stood at the top of the stairs and called them up for dinner.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“That’s a good analogy,” Sara told him. “Their parents set up this pattern where they abuse them, then buy them ice cream. Or they guilt them into doing what they want, or trick them. Kids don’t know that it’s not supposed to be that way.” Sara sighed. “And the fact is, the kids love their parents. They want to please them. They don’t want to get their parents in trouble. They want the behavior to stop, but they don’t want to lose their mother and father.” She paused. “There’s a real dependency there. The parents cause the pain, but they’re also the ones who take it away.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“You sure?"
"Sure as two fists can be.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“She knew that there came a point when your mind told you everything was wrong, but your body betrayed you anyway, reaching out for whatever comfort was offered.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“Lena had never understood people sending flowers to a funeral home, but she finally realized that the flowers were something for the living to enjoy, a reminder that there was still life in the world, that people could go on.”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut

“Okay. Good.’ He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take”
― Karin Slaughter, Kisscut