Top 100 Charlaine Harris Quotes
#1. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.
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#2. My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.
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#3. I stopped for a moment, biting the inside of my cheek. This was the hardest part. I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.
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#4. So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test.
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#5. Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
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#7. But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.
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#8. Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology, said Bill Compton, vampire.
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#10. It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.
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#12. Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don't have human values, you know." "A lot of humans turn on those who trust them," I pointed out. I can be practical. "I'm not a total fool.
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#13. No thanks," I said, giving a sigh of repletion. "That was so good.
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#14. I love him, I said, but even to my own ears
I didn't sound happy about it.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.
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#17. I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom.
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#18. Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
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#19. This was an unpleasant trend. I didn't want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.
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#20. Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
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#24. The Rev's house is similar to Fiji's, but it's older, smaller, and has only sparse grass in the little front yard. It is also in no way welcoming or charming, and he has no cat.
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#25. If this were the fifties, she'd be checking Sam's collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)
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#26. Eric: If I had known you would be this gorgeous with your clothes off, I would have tried to do this sooner.
Sookie: You did try to do this sooner, about twenty times.
Eric: Then I have good taste.
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#27. Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane's legacy wasn't entirely benevolent.
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#29. You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat?
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#31. 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 ...
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#32. 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.
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#33. Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature ... tea cup humans!
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#34. Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care.
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#36. I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.
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#39. 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.
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#40. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.
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#41. Come on, I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.
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#42. 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.
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#43. And since I'm going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?
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#44. Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.
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#45. It's my partner, he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare.
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#46. You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie.
- Eric, Club dead.
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#47. The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb
wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.
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#48. Lillian is one of those disagreeable people who yet have some redeeming qualities, so that you can't write them off entirely - but you sure wish you could.
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#49. Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that - at the moment - I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.
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#50. Eric," she said, "maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we
can go to a baby shower!"
"That would be something to see," said Eric
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#51. The last thing I wanted to do was to sit in a crowded bar to watch my cousin get naked.
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#52. 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.
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#53. This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Bill didn't get any kind of erotic thrill from a wineglass of LifeFlow.
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#57. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm.
...
It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.
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#58. I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
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#60. I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.
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#61. Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.
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#62. The fae were gone from America. Their departure point? Bon Temps, Louisiana. The woods behind my house.
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#63. I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.
His passion had been artificial.
His pursuit of me had been choreographed.
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#64. 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.
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#65. JB's mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.
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#66. The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.
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#67. Would Eric enjoy being a Sooner? As I navigated through Shreveport, I wondered if Oklahoma vampires wore cowboy boots and knew all the songs from the musical.
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#68. Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!"
Why was I not surprised?
"Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.
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#69. I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
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#70. ( ... ) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.
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#71. Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.
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#74. Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood.
With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. "When you smell like that," he said. "I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you."
-Eric drunk on Fairies.
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#75. Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.
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#78. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?
-Sookie Stackhouse
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#80. 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.
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#81. Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.
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#83. Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past,
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#84. I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."
"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.
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#87. That was an idea I didn't want to have. But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay.
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#88. 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.
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#89. His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
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#90. Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read ... or didn't read.
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#91. What had set the fae world off? I'd never seen one. Now you couldn't throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.
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#92. All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice.
He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him.
I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.
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#98. Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be.
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#99. The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .
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