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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“children always have different parents, even in the same family.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. “The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“All the sneakiness her sister had exhibited as a child had been honed to adult perfection, so that Claire could be standing right in front of an oncoming train and still insist that everything was going to be fine.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’re attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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“She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could’ve been top in her class, but she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Everest because winning would bring too much attention.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 25 days
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There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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“I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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“Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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“Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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"Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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Why? His eyes seem to ask. Why did you kiss me? My pulse speeds up. Why indeed? Because I like making poor choices, and you look like the worst one yet.”― Laura Thalassa, Famine
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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And even though Pete was all but lost in deeper dreams by then, he sensed the embrace, or at least imagined he did, and for a moment he felt understood and forgiven. As though a cycle had been completed, or something found. - The Whisper Man, Alex North
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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When he was a child, his father had been a language he was unable to speak, but he was fluent now. - The Whisper Man, Alex North
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paigeypaige19 · 27 days
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If his son’s memory was not literally true, then, like Pete’s own feelings of failure, it presumably still felt true enough, and that was the kind of truth that mattered most in the end. - The Whisper Man, Alex North
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