Quotes from 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.

Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.

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.

The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

Why bother to change, if you can't change into a wolf?

reducing other beings to their component parts.

Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius.

I want to call you all those gooshy words you use when you love someone, no matter how stupid it sounds.

My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum.

But when I heard his voice, I felt content. When I was with him, I felt beautiful and happy. And there was nothing I could do about it.

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.

Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.

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

Despite the failure of Velda Cannon's Depends, we'd had a great time.

As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie

The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was a fond memory. It was an appropriate day to dump a body.

That would do the trick, he said hoarsely. Jesus, Harper, I don't understand why we don't have guys following us from town to town just to watch you do that. Because I've never done it for anyone but you, I said. You don't think I'd say something like that to anyone else, do you? Please, he said. Please do that for me. And no one else.

I would feel the urge to attack people, to bite them; they'd all be walking McBloodburgers to me.

Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.

Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. But I'm an emotional eater, she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. And I was real emotional in jail.

You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat?

You've reached Fangtasia, where the undead live again every night...For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to a live 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. -Pam

Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you.