Karin Slaughter

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.

He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.

Please don’t leave me, Paul. Please.”

“I won’t,” he promised.

But then he did.

It’s the curse of the motherless child

’s the curse of the motherless child

“The truth can rot you from the inside. It doesn’t leave room for anything else.”

past behavior predicts future behavior.

There was a psychiatric syndrome called folie à plusieurs—a shared psychosis where a group of people together commit bad acts that they wouldn’t otherwise commit on their own.

“Libel pertains to written or printed statements that are found to be either false or defamatory. Slander is oral or spoken defamation.”

Do you know that a bruised or sprained wrist is one of the most common signs of domestic violence?