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

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

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

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

“Nothing was really lost until your mother couldn’t find it.”
― 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

“you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad,”
― 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

“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

“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

“The fact that she had auburn hair and was left-handed had already led to a lengthy discussion.”
― 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

“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 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