Quotes from 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.

what are you? he asked. I'm a waitress.

I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.

It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell.

Their backs were to me, and the vampire hadn't seen me yet I loosened the coiled chain so a good three feet of it swung free. Who to attack first? They were both small and vicious. I remembered Mack's contemptuous dismissal and the fact that he never left me a tip. Mack first.

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.

Least said soonest meanded

She(Pam) said you had a habit of killing the bartenders of Fangtasia, Felicia said, her lovely doe eyes wide with amazement. She said I must come to beg your mercy. But you just seem like a human, to me.

I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up inside, with a little table beside it just big enough to hold a book and a coffee cup.

A place isn't really yours until you clean it.

The queen is ... busy, Wybert said. When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine. He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door. So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.

If weeds could flourish with such vigor, may I could, too.

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.

Look. This room is the Seal Room. See the big picture of the seal? And that room is the Pony Room.? ?Is there a pony?? Hunter was an optimist.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.

You have a nice day, you hear?

Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she'd played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor. I was profoundly glad I hadn't been having an affair with her husband.

It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.

In fact, Eric said, as he went to the front door, I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it. He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. 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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to sit in a crowded bar to watch my cousin get naked.

Do you want a drink?" "You mean synthetic blood," she said after a slight hesitation. "Yes, that would be nice. A sociable gesture." "I'm all about the gestures. Bubba, you, too?" "Yes, ma'am, I reckon so," he said.

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.

I'm about as scientific as a saltine