Girl, Forgotten Quotes

“Being dead is a bit like being stupid, isn’t it? Easy for you, but hard for the people around you.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Southern Cheap is, I’m gonna eat stale cookies while I serve you these fresh, warm buttered biscuits. Yankee Cheap is, I’ve got ten million dollars in the bank but I’m gonna cut off the thermostat during a blizzard and here’s my great-great-grandpa’s mothballed coat from the War of 1812 if you don’t have the character and fortitude to generate your own body heat.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“She recited the only prayer Laura had ever taught her. “God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Granted Laura spent most of her time on Nextdoor but that was because people who lived year-round in beach towns were either busybodies, lunatics, and/or possible serial killers.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“you can’t have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“In that moment, Emily had desperately wanted her baby to be all right. Not out of duty. A child wasn’t only a responsibility. It was an opportunity to love someone the way that she had never been loved. And for the first time in this whole shameful, humiliating, helpless process, Emily Vaughn knew without a doubt that she loved this baby.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Dementia was nothing if not a stroll through the many skeletons lining the family closet.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“For the entirety of my life, I saw myself as strong, impenetrable. You get harder in the broken places, and you carry on.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Granted, that’s maybe two hundred people and some of the more socially engaged hedgehogs, but the story might stir up some interests elsewhere.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“He loved a healthy debate. But you can’t have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts. There was always a statistic or a data set that only he knew about. He was smarter than everyone else, you see. He had it all figured out. In the end, you felt embarrassed for not coming round to his point of view sooner. It takes a tremendous amount of arrogance to honestly believe that everyone else in the world is clueless and you’re the only one who knows the truth.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“There’s a difference between needing to be saved and asking somebody who cares about you for help.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“How do you trick a psychopath into telling the truth?” Laura kept silent for so long that Andrea wasn’t sure she was still on the line. Eventually, her mother said, “You do the same thing that they do to you—you make them think that you believe in them.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Andrea had nothing left to dig. She knew her stomach would probably shit out of her throat if she pushed herself any harder.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“Political ideology is nothing more than a fulcrum to pry open the levers of power.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“She had learned two years ago that death had a stillness that reached into your soul.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten