Quotes by Charlaine Harris

I wish, I said. I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

I am self-educated from genre books.

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

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

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.

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

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

My bullshit metre is reading that as false.

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

Im supposed to be a christian, but most days I dont feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I cant sleep, I think about the other people who didnt care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good Id feel if they died.

Ill show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference, she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. Ill bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. Shell get her shots, and shell get her braces. Well start a college fund next week. Ill tell her I love her every damn day.If that wasnt a great plan for being a good mother, I couldnt imagine what a better one could be.

When youre a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you wont get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

I have a big hole in my heart, I said. But itll close over.I dont want to sound all Dr. Phil, she said. But dont let the scab seal the pain in, okay?Thats good advice, I said. I hope I can manage it.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Are you a prude? He seemed genuinely curious.No! But after a second, I said, But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.I thought the top of my head would pop off...(Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.Ick! I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

I didnt know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)

A year ago, I said, you wouldn’t have asked this of me.A year ago, he answered, you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink. I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.