Charlaine Harris famous quotes

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Book #Vacation

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

#Women #Salt #Woman Worth

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Forgiveness #Regret #Moving

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Book #Vampire #Possessive

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Love #Life #Optimistic

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!
-- Charlaine Harris

#Secret #Vampire #Stuff

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

#Relationship #Ex Boyfriend #Dating

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Gay #Thinking #Rights

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

#Writing #Please

You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Humorous #Party #Night

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

#Thinking #Miracle #Magic

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Book #People #Information

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Between You And Me

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Eye #Dwelling #Depth

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.
-- Charlaine Harris

#People

She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Fighting #Eric #Proud

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Police #Lists #Odd Things

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse
-- Charlaine Harris

#Reading #Bullshit #Eric

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

#Beautiful #Eye #Kitchen

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Cute #College #Thinking

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Taken #Path #Sometimes

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Long #Heaven #Painful

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Romance #Lovers #Eric Northman

Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Girlfriend #Mirrors #Hair

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Beautiful #Calendars #Craving

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

#New Year #Coffee #Years

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Fingernails

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

#Drama #Years #Firsts

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

#Mother #Children #Reading

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Phones #Technique #Eric

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Fae #World #Hitting

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

#Men #Alive

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

#Mother #Taught #Appreciated

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Looks #Matter #Cry

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Classic #Said #Direct

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
-- Charlaine Harris

#Mind #Comment #Humans

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

#Letting Go #Pain #Long

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?
-- Charlaine Harris

#Might #Eric Northman #Neighborhood

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Trouble

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

#Vampire #May #Weapons

Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Girl #Thinking #Voice

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.
-- Charlaine Harris

#I Love You More #Heartless #Cold

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Tree #Pity #Form

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Sweet

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric
-- Charlaine Harris

#Hate #Knowing #Not Knowing

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

#Interesting #Fiction #Boring

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Tree #Vision #Eric

Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life
-- Charlaine Harris

#Love You #Heart #Light

(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

#Stupid #Hair #My Favorite

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Book #Way #Awareness

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Grateful #Wine #Vintage

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...
-- Charlaine Harris

#Mouths #Ghost

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

#Want #Welcome #Enjoy

Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Eye #Men #Profound

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
-- Charlaine Harris

#Feelings #Pool #Drowning

He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Way #Killing #Lord

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Tired #People #Railroads

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

#Eric #Gone

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Light #Safe #Littles

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Long #People #Add

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Boards #Biscuits #Enough

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Smart #Fall #Voice

No blame, no hate - why no communication?
-- Charlaine Harris

#Hate #Communication #Blame

Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?
-- Charlaine Harris

#Trying #Rays #Needs

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Suffering #Trying #Matter

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Adventure #Games #Tears

No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Love You #Doubt #Care

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Sick #Bullshit #Anxiety

The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Couple #Rip #Night

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ...
-- Charlaine Harris

#Want #Said #Spend Time

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Creatures

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Lakes #Together #Rabbits

What are you, Zen Master Fang?
-- Charlaine Harris

#Masters #Zen Master

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Loss #Dust #Vampire

It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Brother #Home #Son

Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Moving #Thinking #Hands

I wish," I said. "I could save ***** in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Thinking #Wish #Jars

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Mistake #Long #Perfect

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Romance #Literature #Should

Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Doors #Hands #House

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Softball #Daughter #Mother

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Writing #Television

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Character #Heroic

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
-- Charlaine Harris

#United States #States #United

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Wonderful

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
-- Charlaine Harris

#People #Culture #Youth

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Fun #Having Fun #Quitting

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Book #Writing #Pages

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Gold #Silver

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Thinking #Graphic Novels #Novel

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Writing #Romance #Kind

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

#Mother #Teacher #Children

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
-- Charlaine Harris

#New Year #Years #Firsts

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.
-- Charlaine Harris

#I Love Him #Sound #Ears

My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Waiting #Teeth #Naked

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Rain #Fall #Doors

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

#Ties #People #Littles

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

#Sympathy #Sorry #Grandmother

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Doors #House #Scary