Charlaine Harris Quotes: 25

• Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

• You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

  Club Dead

• If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

  Dead to the World

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

  Dead to the World

• My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

  Dead as a Doornail

• Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

  Dead to the World

• Hey, our hair's the same color,"I said, eying us side by side in the mirror."Sure is, girlfriend."Eric grinned at me.

  Living Dead in Dallas

• Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

  Dead as a Doornail

• I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry."That's interesting,"he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

  Dead Until Dark

• The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this."Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.

  Living Dead in Dallas

• 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.

  Club Dead

• I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

  Dead to the World

• As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care."Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.

  Dead to the World

• But there's a juicy artery in your groin,"he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide."Don't you talk dirty,"I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Dead Until Dark

• 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.

  Dead to the World

• 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.

  Dead to the World

• Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

  Dead as a Doornail

• 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.

  Dead to the World

• Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

  Dead Until Dark

• 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

  Living Dead in Dallas

• A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

  Dead to the World

• I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

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

  Definitely Dead

• 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.

• Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

  Dead and Gone