Quotes from Charlaine Harris

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.

I'd long wondered if I were really a civilized person, though I kept striving to be one. I knew that at the moment I'd said I would take care of Lorena myself, I had meant it. There was something pretty savage inside me, and I'd always controlled it. My grandmother had not raised me to be a murderess.

Buddy of yours? Manfred asked, when he was sure his voice would be even. I don't think snake-shifters have buddies, Lemuel said. They just know people they haven't tried to eat yet.

I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought, and I'd spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.

Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept.

Weird doesn't equal morally bankrupt.

red high-heeled screw-me shoes.

Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.

His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune. I don't know much, I confessed, my voice barely audible. Don't worry. I know a lot.

Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.

His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.

We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

La soledad es mucho más divertida si es opcional.

Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.

Al parecer, era la época de abrazar a Sookie y nadie me había avisado.

You can get more skilled, Sookie, but can't get any better.

Eric: if Sookie had died, I would let you suffer. Bill: if Sookie had died, I would already be dead.

I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.

Amelia was sitting on the pavement in her lawn chair, a glass of wine in her hand. When we emerged, she set the glass down very carefully on the ground and then looked us over from head to toe. 'Okay, don't know how to react,' she said, finally.

that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.

Te quiero -dijo- Nada de lo que hagas o digas podrá cambiarlo. Si me pidieras que enterrase un cadáver, o que me cargase a alguien, lo haría sin pestañear.

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.

Maybe I hadn't been a big dating success because I was a boring person, but possibly it had been because I had limited tolerance for all this preliminary maneuvering and signal reading. - Aurora

Love them to death. Sookie to Pam