Charlaine Harris Quotes

I had passed, I had become the thing that had happened to me.

~ Charlaine Harris

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

~ Charlaine Harris

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

~ Charlaine Harris

I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

~ Charlaine Harris

I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be.

~ Charlaine Harris

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

~ Charlaine Harris

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

~ Charlaine Harris

Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious.'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?''Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.'I thought the top of my head would pop off...(Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

~ Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

~ Charlaine Harris

I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)

~ Charlaine Harris

A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.''A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

~ Charlaine Harris

But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.

~ Charlaine Harris

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

~ Charlaine Harris

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you. ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

~ Charlaine Harris

And you are mine, and you will be mine. Theywill not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

~ Charlaine Harris

When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel.

~ Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one. It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

~ Charlaine Harris

But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about it. In fact, probably he’d have sent Pam.

~ Charlaine Harris

May I search it? she asked. We screen for weapons.I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. Of course not. I have no weapons.

~ Charlaine Harris

Vampires, bringing America together!

~ Charlaine Harris

But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home.I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.

~ Charlaine Harris

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

~ Charlaine Harris

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

~ Charlaine Harris

You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta

~ Charlaine Harris

Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part.

~ Charlaine Harris

I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

~ Charlaine Harris

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.

~ Charlaine Harris

I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian

~ Charlaine Harris

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

~ Charlaine Harris

No threatening the cat! Mr. Snuggly said.

~ Charlaine Harris

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. Save the drama for your mama I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

~ Charlaine Harris

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

~ Charlaine Harris

He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. You are beautiful. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

~ Charlaine Harris

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. - Eric, Club dead.

~ Charlaine Harris

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

~ Charlaine Harris

Bring it on, fur-ass!

~ Charlaine Harris

You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

~ Charlaine Harris

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

~ Charlaine Harris

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

~ Charlaine Harris