Charlaine Harris Quotes

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I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

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Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead.

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We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.

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The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

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Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

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All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

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That's just not right," Sam muttered. "Claude needs to keep his pants on.

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I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

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Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.

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Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.

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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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No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don't doubt that I love you and care about your welfare... as much as I am able.

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He picked some unwise words. Saying, I'll enjoy killing you for my lord, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

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No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

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If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you'd be straining to hear the rest.

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It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

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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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Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most...

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I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

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She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.

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Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

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So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?

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In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

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My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.

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Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

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I love you, Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't. That's what you all keep saying, I answered. But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.

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Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I'd ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone.

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You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.

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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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But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

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