After That Night Quotes

“Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That’s how we get trees.” “Does now seem like an appropriate time for a nut metaphor?”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“This is the wrong day to hit me with annoying dipshittery.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That’s how we get trees.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Nothing was really lost until your mother couldn’t find it.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“I’ve never understood women who would rather be tolerated than loved.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Change tells you who you really are.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“When someone says they’re living their life on their own terms, someone else is always paying the price for it.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“When you were on the road to becoming a highly successful man, your wife ran the essential domestic parts of your life. When you were a woman on the road to success, you either lived in squalor or relied on your family.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“When you work really hard to reach a goal, it’s almost depressing when you achieve it, because what now? What’s the next goal?”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Give a man a parachute, he flies one time. Push a man out of an airplane, he flies for the rest of his life.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“The only reason to use the word female like that in a report is if you’re an asshole or an incel.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“There are so many criminals to choose from,” she said. “Congressmen and senators and judges, oh my. They collude like gangsters. You can spot them by their colors. Louis Vuitton, Zegna, Prada. The Birken Bitches run quite a racket during the holidays trying to see who can raise enough money to feed the poor. It’s a shame they don’t simply pay their fair share of taxes and let the poor feed themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Vivia com o nariz enfiado num livro.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Era ferozmente inteligente, às vezes, para seu próprio mal.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“elevator”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“The only thing Faith knew for certain was that her daughter would be home in four days. If Emma saw that her construction paper had been torn into strips, that her Hello Kitty tape had been used, that her drawings were gone from the fridge, she would have such a fiery meltdown that a couple of hobbits would show up to toss some rings at her.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“The current incel movement is the main cog driving the online male supremacist machine. Mostly white, mostly young, all males, all expressing hatred, misogyny, self-pity, self-loathing, a sense of entitlement to sex, a love of violence against women, and the obligatory side of racism.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Don’t be so hard on her. The thing about doing coke is it makes you want to tell everybody you’re doing coke.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Faith thought of her children again, how her biggest worry with Jeremy was that he would fall in love with a girl who broke his heart and her biggest fear with Emma was that she would fall in love with a man who broke her bones.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“There was something to be said for a man who made you a playlist of songs you liked instead of foisting his favorite music on you.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Get out of bed. Shower. Dress. Leave the house. Go to work. Do your job. Let denial blunt memory’s razor-sharp edges. Let the passage of time give you some distance. Then, when you were ready to face what happened, the cuts wouldn’t feel so deep.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“He’s waiting downstairs.” Amanda glanced at her cell phone before turning it over on her desk. She asked Faith, “Tell me what you’re feeling. Bring him into the fold or push him out?” “My feeling is that I have so many feelings that I’m drowning in them.” She threw up her hands. “He’s legally an adult. I can’t lock him in his room. And I’m a shitty judge of whether or not this is a bad idea because he’s my baby and I’m terrified of losing him.” “Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That’s how we get trees.” “Does now seem like an appropriate time for a nut metaphor?” Amanda sighed. “Take the laptop and phone down to digital services. Tell Liz”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“She called it a profound opportunity, because change tells you who you really are. And she was right. After that night, my entire life changed. The person I was going to be was gone. I had two choices. I could disappear along with her, or I could fight to get back the parts of her that mattered. I’m not saying that I’m grateful for that lesson. I’m really not. But I’m grateful that it made me the kind of woman who knows how to love you.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“and it becomes about how everyone else feels. And at the end of the day, it’s easier to just shut up about it and try to live your life and hope—pray like hell—that it doesn’t come up, so you don’t have to deal with it again and again and again.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“And at the end of the day, it’s easier to just shut up about it and try to live your life and hope—pray like hell—that it doesn’t come up, so you don’t have to deal with it again and again and again.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Over 40% of American women and 20% of men have experienced some sort of sexual violence in their lifetimes. Fewer than 20% of these instances were reported to police and fewer still have been prosecuted.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“The fact that she had auburn hair and was left-handed had already led to a lengthy discussion.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“Sara took a deep breath, inhaling for five seconds, then exhaling for five seconds, then continuing the cycle until her heart didn’t feel like it was going to burst inside her chest. The breathing exercise was a version of cardiac coherence. The heart rate increases slightly when you inhale and decreases when you exhale, so timing them out could theoretically calm the parasympathetic nervous system, the central nervous system, and the brain.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“she would have such a fiery meltdown that a couple of hobbits would show up to toss some rings at her. Faith’s eyes randomly picked out Britt’s red missives from the courthouse bathroom.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night

“People always have an idea of how a rape survivor should and shouldn’t exist in the world. They judge you based on how they think they would act if it happened to them, or how they think you should act, and there’s no possible way to satisfy all of them. So, you just say to yourself—why? Why am I having to convince someone, usually a stranger, that I didn’t deserve this traumatic, life-altering assault that happened to me? Or worse, why do I have to convince them that I’m not making it up for—for what? For attention? Or, oh, God, if they feel sorry for you and elevate you to some kind of sainthood, like you’re a better person because you suffered? And should I call myself a victim or a survivor? Because sometimes, even fifteen years later, I feel like a victim. And other times I feel like, fuck yes, I’m a survivor. I’m still here, aren’t I? But the words are so politicized, and it stops being about how you feel, and it becomes about how everyone else feels. And at the end of the day, it’s easier to just shut up about it and try to live your life and hope—pray like hell—that it doesn’t come up, so you don’t have to deal with it again and again and again.”
― Karin Slaughter, After That Night