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1 " I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart. "
― Karin Slaughter , The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1)
2 " Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges. "
3 " I’ve always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart "
4 " What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive. "
5 " It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved. "
6 " sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again. "
7 " I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right. "
8 " A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial. "
9 " a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system. "
10 " You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it. "
11 " Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place. "
12 " You don’t understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can’t predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you. "
13 " Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right. "
14 " Every place always has somebody who doesn’t fit in. That’s what makes them fit in. "
15 " Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. "
16 " Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you’ve got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right. "
17 " all the pickup-driving John Boys who drove down to Atlanta every day to make money, then drove back at night and railed against the godless liberals who lined their pockets and subsidized their utilities, their healthcare, their children’s lunches and their schools. "
18 " Dogs are stupid,” Rusty said. “This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—” He snapped his fingers. “That’s what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north. "
19 " People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again. "
20 " She had seen this before. She knew that you could put it all in a little box and close it up later, that you could go on with your life if you didn't sleep too much, didn't breathe too much, didn't live too much so that death came back and snatched you away for the taking. "
