As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
Interpretation
The aftermath of committing a crime deeply affects individuals, often leading to personal struggles and transformations.
Karin Slaughter's quote emphasizes that while crime itself can have terrible consequences, it is the lingering effects of that crime—such as emotional turmoil and the difficulty of moving forward—that truly shape and alter a person's life. This reflects the idea that experiences, particularly negative ones, can lead to significant personal change and introspection.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the psychological impacts of crime during a community meeting.
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?
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