Darla Crosby

“A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.

Even if it is a Chihuahua.”
― Karin Slaughter, Triptych

“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

“It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.”
― Karin Slaughter, Triptych

“. . . he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.”
― Karin Slaughter, Criminal