Quotes from Charlaine Harris

Tearing down is always easier than building up

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.

He didn't exactly look kind, but he looked less detached. "He was your enemy, and now he is dead," he said. "This is cause for rejoicing." "Not exactly," I said. I didn't know how to explain. "You're a Christian," he said, as if he'd discovered I was a hermaphrodite or a fruitarian. "I'm a real bad one," I said hurriedly. His lips compressed, and I could see he was trying hard not to laugh.

Every now and then I felt like I was Bill's doll.

Just what I needed, another psycho bitch after me. Hadn't the Weres pretty much cornered that market?

The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .

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.

Nunca fui uma mulher de relações de uma noite só. Quero ter a certeza, se dormir contigo, de que o faço porque queres passar algum tempo comigo e porque gostas de mim por quem eu sou e não pelo que sou.

She's lazy. That extends to her friendships. If it's easy to be friendly, she will be. If the wind blows the other way, her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right, by hating others.

Jeff Abbot was once involved in a taxicab race with Charlaine Harris in North Carolina (he did not win).

No threatening the cat! Mr. Snuggly said.

If he had two thoughts at the same time, they would throw a surprise party. Martin Bartel regarding a less than stellar intellect, to his wife Roe Teagarden in A Fool and His Honey

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

Oh, boy, he could kiss.

Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.

My brother was an asshole, and Crystal was a whore. These were facts I had to deal with.

Email to Eric from Bill: GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff. Bill

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read.

Make love, he suggested. Make love with me. I'm not in the right mood for love. Let me try to persuade you.

It's not that I approve of murder—but some people just beg to be killed, don't they?

This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it—sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick.

At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American

I had a neat and tidy life in a messy world, and if sometimes I suspected I was trying to fulfill the stereotype of a small-town librarian, well, I had yearnings to play other roles, too.

with green beans and rice.