Quotes from Charlaine Harris

Don't worry about not feeling guilty. Something will happen soon for which you will feel guilty. Keep the feeling for then.

Oh, she'll be so impressed," Pam was saying, sounding as pleased as I did when someone brought me some fresh produce from his garden. "How very thoughtful." She stepped aside so I could appreciate my presents. Jesus Christ, Shepherd of Judea. My great-uncle Dermot and Bellenos were standing in the dripping rain, each holding a severed head. Let me just say

I would give anything to lie with you again," he said.

that gloomy kind of mood where you remember all of your mistakes and none of your good decisions

He had thinning brown hair, broad shoulders, sharp blue eyes, and a suggestion of a gut.

politically correct theory, the one the vamps

I don't have to take a stand by telling other people they're wrong," I'd protested. "What business is it of mine?" "If you love them, it's your business," he'd said firmly. "If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it's your business.

But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay.

You're doing so good, I told myself. I'm so proud of you. You just have to get through this. You can go home in fifteen minutes. I wondered how many women had given themselves the same lecture: the girl who'd held her head up at a dance where her date was paying attention to another classmate; the woman who'd been passed by for promotion at her job; the woman who had listened to a dire diagnosis and yet kept her face together.

He loved his mother. He just had a hard time remembering that some days.

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!

By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.