Quotes from Charlaine Harris

You want to own your own life," Eric said. "As much as anyone can." "Just when I think you're very simple, you say something complex," Eric said. "Are you complaining?" I tried to smile, failed. "No.

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.

I liked long skirts, he said nostalgically. I liked the underthings women wore. The petticoats.

It was one of those nights that made me wonder how the humans around me could be so oblivious to the other world operating right beside ours. Only willful ignorance could ignore the charge of magic in the air. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.

It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that's the way I am. I knew I'd feel better. It was living until then that was hard.

Intenté recoger mi mandíbula del suelo antes de que se diese cuenta de lo pasmada que me había dejado.

Even at the beginning of fall—which is only a date on the calendar in Texas;

So me and my big ball of worry went back to my room to play catch some more.

In books, the hero was gone after the big blowup. He didn't stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into oblivion. And that was the way things should be, as far as I was concerned. Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

He was as tenacious as a pit bull, but with half the brain power and none of the looks.

Not since the dark days of the Twilight franchise had it been so trendy to be dead.

if you live next door to an apex predator, you shouldn't go around poking him with a stick. Fiji

I am so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. - Pam

I started to say that couldn't happen, that the people I knew wouldn't turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn't say that, because I wondered if it was the truth.

There are three motels in Davy if you go north, and at least six over in Marthasville if you go west. If you go to the interstate, there are a skadillion places to stay.

grip on consciousness slipped as easily and completely as had his hand. "No . . ." he said once more, very weakly. The canopy of trees above

But if I went into the employees' bathroom or the public ladies' room, I'd end up crying, because it hurt to be admonished and it hurt to be wrong; but most of all, it hurt to be put in my place.

Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too!

No thanks," I said, giving a sigh of repletion. "That was so good.

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom.

I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. You would have thought that since they lived together twenty-four hours a day they would've said all they could think of to say, but I could hear one offer the other a comment every now and then. This calm, intermittent dialogue seemed companionable, and I went into kind of a trance sitting on the end of that bed.

We survived,(…) And my brother got married to the woman he loves. And that's all that's important.' 'Sam, do you really think that?'(…) 'Nah. But what would you say the moral of the day was? There was a lot of hate, there was some love. The love won out for Craig, the hate did Jim Collins in.