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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." --
Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.789, Penguin
Charlaine Harris
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“Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.”
Source : "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.
“You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.”
“Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.”
“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.”
“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”
“What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.”
Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
Source : James Ellroy (2011). “American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)”, p.3, Vintage
“You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.”