Quotes by Charlaine Harris

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.

I dont know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just cant be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I dont want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

No threatening the cat! Mr. Snuggly said.

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. Save the drama for your mama I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

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

He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. You are beautiful. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. - Eric, Club dead.

In fact, Eric said, as he went to the front door, Id throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it.He left, closing the door behind him very quietly.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.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, its gonna please somebody else.

Bring it on, fur-ass!

Youre lips are bloody. He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. Its hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Its hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Kennedys issue didnt seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, shed told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. But Im an emotional eater, shed said, as if that were a terrible thing. And I was real emotional in jail.

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

“The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.”

“My bullshit meter is reading that as false.”

“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.”

“You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.”

“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? ~Eric Northman”