Charlaine Harris Quotes

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

~ Charlaine Harris

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

~ Charlaine Harris

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

~ Charlaine Harris

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

~ Charlaine Harris

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

~ Charlaine Harris

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

~ Charlaine Harris

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

~ Charlaine Harris

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

~ Charlaine Harris

You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.

~ Charlaine Harris

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

~ Charlaine Harris

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.

~ Charlaine Harris

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

~ Charlaine Harris

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

~ Charlaine Harris

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

~ Charlaine Harris

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

~ Charlaine Harris

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

~ Charlaine Harris

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

~ Charlaine Harris

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

~ Charlaine Harris

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

~ Charlaine Harris

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

~ Charlaine Harris

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care.Woman?Hmmm?What's your name?Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse.Thank you, Sookie.Welcome, Eric.

~ Charlaine Harris

Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.

~ Charlaine Harris

(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

~ Charlaine Harris

I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.

~ Charlaine Harris

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.

~ Charlaine Harris

How is Eric?''Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.''Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.''Oh. Well ... great.'She hung up.

~ Charlaine Harris

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

~ Charlaine Harris

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

~ Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

~ Charlaine Harris

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?- Eric, club dead.

~ Charlaine Harris

Pam. Listen.''The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.''Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.''Fuck a zombie!'- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris

~ Charlaine Harris

We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.And I slept.

~ Charlaine Harris

I am self-educated from genre books.

~ Charlaine Harris

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

~ Charlaine Harris

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

~ Charlaine Harris

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

~ Charlaine Harris

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

~ Charlaine Harris

Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why.It was one of the few times I’d ever seen Hoyt alone.

~ Charlaine Harris

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

~ Charlaine Harris

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

~ Charlaine Harris