Quotes from Charlaine Harris

I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn't imagine a future without him. 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.

But you know that we are different, and people rarely understand what's different.

I'd only had time pass by in such a slip-sliding way when I'd been badly injured.

If you find yourself considering who to take for a lover because of his ability to defend you, you're getting pretty close to selecting a mate because you think he has desirable traits to pass along to future generations.

It had never made any difference to me what people called me, as long as I knew who I was.

A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.

Did Harlequin have a line of books for guys-out-of-prison-get-redeemed romances?

Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.

Children and parents didn't always have close and loving relationships. Like marriages, the pairing of parents and offspring sometimes didn't work out.

The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.

I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely.

Your brother's car has been found, he told Jay Marriot. It's on a little road almost directly across from Sookie's driveway. ... Eric had told me that that little road, a dirt track leading back to a deer camp, was where Debbie Pelt had hidden her car when she'd come to kill me. Might as well put up a sign: PARKING FOR SOOKIE STACKHOUSE NIGHTTIME ATTACKS.

ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

I had lived too close to the edge of despair and mental illness not to recognize it in others

A vagrant thought crossed my mind.

Today was going to be a hard day, and I always felt better when I was dressed while handling a crisis. Something about putting on my underwear makes me feel more capable.

because vampires were flammable, much more so than humans.

Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortable. "I'm glad to see you," Carey was saying warmly while I was decoding her identity.

I love the South, don't get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.

You have to live well to defeat whoever's doing this to you," I said. "You can't let them win.

Did Lou have Luke—isn't that your little boy's name?—here in the Shakespeare hospital?

that belonged in the big pile of things that weren't my problem.

We both knew there would be new problems to face, but there wasn't any need to talk about future trouble. Trouble always came at its own pace.

But sooner or later, this prosperity will extend everywhere. It just got here first.