Charlaine Harris Quotes

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My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.

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Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

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Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

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The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it".

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The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

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I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm................ It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

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I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

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I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

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Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

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Should we do this now?" Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. "You waiting for an engraved invite?" Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.

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I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

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Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

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I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

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"But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you." "Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had (...) "Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too."

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Eric followed Vlad Tepes's stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn't read his face at all, and I felt a stirring of fear. What would Charlie Brown have done if the Great Pumpkin wanted to eat the little red-haired girl?

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The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

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I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

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When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

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Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care.

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Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

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Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

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Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

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We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.

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Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn't even known I was in the pool

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It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

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