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.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.
I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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