Quotes from Charlaine Harris

I could tell that Peter, in the irritating way of very young men, had been mysterious about the whole episode.

He had never heard of smiling.

the pain in my middle was the unmistakable pain of rejection. I knew the feeling so well, it was like a second skin. I sure hated to crawl back inside it.

Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past

I could imagine my grandmother's opinion about Holly's white wedding dress, since Holly had a little boy in school—but hey, whatever made the bride happy. White used to symbolize the virgin purity of the wearer. Now it just meant the bride had acquired an expensive and unusable dress to hang in her closet after the big day.

He gripped my arms and kissed me for all he was worth, and believe me, that was plenty.

I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.

Someone was stretched out beside me; it was the vampire. I could see his glow. I could feel his tongue moving on my head. He was licking my head wound. I could hardly begrudge him.

if there is one thing ministers are good at projecting, it is sincerity.

The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child.

I owed her big-time. Jane had left me the house and the money and the skull. I

There's such a thing as being too determined not to accept a gift

It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.

Life around vampires was just one continuous emergency, I decided.

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 of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.

However, Arlene's arrival had kind of wiped out my options. I

Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude.

Once again, I was in deeper waters than I could swim in.

My grandmother always told me women could do whatever they had to do, and once again, she was right.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." She had explained that that meant that you don't worry about tomorrow, or about things you can't change. I

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

The good you do does not spring from me, but only from you.

Honey, we have other things to think about," I said, forcing myself to smile, forcing myself to sound calm. One corner of my brain pictured a pink ambulance screeching to a halt outside to disgorge emergency beauticians with cases of scissors, combs, and hair spray. "Dealing with a little hair damage can wait until tomorrow. It's a lot more important to find out who did this and why.

Theoretically, then, I was delighted and hopeful for my two friends. But I couldn't feel it. I'd seen awful things, and I'd done awful things. Now I felt like two different people trying to exist inside the same space.