Charlaine Harris Quotes

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There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

Charlaine Harris
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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Eric, she said, maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower! That would be something to see, said Eric

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Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

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

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Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

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Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

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Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

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Don't you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you've made, every hurt you've received, every bit of meanness you've dealt out? There's no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.

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Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

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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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May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

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Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away." It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

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They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

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I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

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My gran had always told me that a woman—any woman worth her salt—could do whatever she had to.

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Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. He'll spare you, Eric said, and I understood he wasn't really talking to me but to himself. You're too unique to waste. And then he opened the door.

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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.
Sookie Stackhouse speaking

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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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Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.

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How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well... great.' She hung up.

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Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

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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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I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

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Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

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And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

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I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

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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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