Killer Instinct Quotes
"You couldn’t stop looking for a kid like that. You couldn’t stop hoping, even if you tried."
"The corners of your mouth are turned upward. The rest of your face is fighting it, like if your lips parted into even a tiny smile, it might clear the way for a sob."
"You do realize that starting a prank war with Lia would be a very bad idea."
"Without question. If only I weren’t so overly burdened with good sense and a need for self-preservation."
"For this instant, this moment, this one night, nothing else mattered."
"The only problem was that now I had no idea if Lia was bluffing."
"No one can make sense of a tragedy like this."
"If you make me go for intervention number three, I’ll be forced to get creative."
"Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us."
"It wasn’t your fault, Cassie. You couldn’t have known."
"If you’re a bad boy, I’ll give your car to Dean."
"Lia and I are…whatever Lia and I normally are."
"There was only ever one case they couldn’t solve."
"I needed space. I needed air. I needed to breathe."
"Because it was crucial for this case. I want this solved as badly as any of you, but unlike you, I’m not playing games here."
"Every second I have to spend policing you, making sure that you’re not taking matters into your own hands and compromising this entire investigation, is a second that I could be spending catching this killer."
"You’re reading us the riot act for trying to put our abilities to use, but letting that SOB play with Dean’s head in exchange for whatever table scraps of information you can get your hands on, that’s okay?"
"You’re not helping," Briggs told Lia. He held her gaze, and I realized that he wasn’t just denying her request. He was telling her that we really weren’t helping the situation.
"I’ll stay out of it." His tone was expressionless, but there was something bitter in his eyes.
"You went to a college campus knowing that a murder had just been committed there, wearing two-fifths of a dress and looking for people who might be connected to the killer?"
"Statistically," Sloane told me, sounding more like her usual self, "the bathroom is the deadliest room in the house."
"I haven’t had a lot of practice at being a decent person. It’s not something at which I particularly excel."
"That’s why I’m here," Dean said. "That girl who was killed at Colonial? And then the professor who was writing the book?"
"Your father killed those women." Dean paused. "But you know that, don’t you?"
"They tore down the toolshed," Dean commented.
"When the odds are bad, you change the rules."
"Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true."
"She’d take risks with her own life, but not with mine."
"I spent so long trying not to choose, trying not to feel, and in an instant, I felt something inside of me break."
"Every piece of glass he shattered, I felt something shattering inside me."
"If you can’t keep them from hitting you, you make them hit you."
"I knew that choosing would mean losing one of them. I just hadn’t imagined losing Michael like this."
"Somehow, a part of me understood—even after everything she’d had us do, her first instinct was still to protect me."
"If I’d chosen Michael, Dean would have understood."
"Impossible situations required impossible solutions."