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Book: The Kept Woman
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Come on, Mitchell." Collier was like a puppy nipping at her heels. "I know you checked me out. What'd your mom say?" Faith made an educated guess. "That you're cocky and prone to mistakes." He grinned. "I knew she'd remember me.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
badness doesn't come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And then you realize that the more you hurt them, the better you feel. So you keep hurting them, and they keep hanging on, and the years roll by and you convince yourself that the fact that they still stand by you means that the pain you cause is okay.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Right. And when we asked the other inmates why she did it, they said that girls had been stealing her stuff. Not just her commissary. She'd put down a pen and the next thing she knows, it's missing. She'd take off her socks and they'd disappear. They even stole her trash. Why do you think they did that?' He shrugged. 'To be mean.' 'To make her understand that nothing belonged to her. That no matter how important or inconsequential, they could take away anything at any time, and she couldn't do anything about it.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Faith gripped the steering wheel. "I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Rippy's. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Will had underestimated the man's doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
If you love someone, you don't go out of your way to hurt them. You don't torture them. You don't terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That's not how love works. It's not how normal people work.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus.
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Karin Slaughter _ The Kept Woman
I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.
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