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Charlaine Harris Schulz is an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled True Blood.

✵ 25. November 1951  •  Other names شارلین هریس
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Dead to the World
Dead to the World
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Living Dead in Dallas
Living Dead in Dallas
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Club Dead
Club Dead
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Dead to the World
Dead to the World
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Living Dead in Dallas
Living Dead in Dallas
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Club Dead
Club Dead
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Famous Charlaine Harris Quotes

“Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.”

Charlaine Harris book An Ice Cold Grave

Source: An Ice Cold Grave

“This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

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

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“So, what, you just decided to sack out here and seduce me when I walked in the door? Home from spending the night at my boyfriend's? After having sex with him that could go in the Guinness Book of Records?”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Reckoning

Source: Dead Reckoning

Charlaine Harris Quotes about love

“Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!"
Why was I not surprised?
"Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.”

Charlaine Harris

“I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Variant: .. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.
Source: Dead in the Family

“I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.

His passion had been artificial.

His pursuit of me had been choreographed.”

Charlaine Harris book Definitely Dead

Source: Definitely Dead

“Alcide: "It's on my right butt cheek. It's shaped like a rabbit."
Sookie: "I love bunnies!”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

Charlaine Harris Quotes about thinking

“I didn't 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)”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

“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?”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

“You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using
this as an excuse to make out with me?"
"I'm not that clever, Eric."
"I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

Charlaine Harris

Source: Last Scene Alive

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“I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

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

Charlaine Harris

“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Quotes

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

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

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

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

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail

Source: Dead as a Doornail

“Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!”

Charlaine Harris

“I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
That was a tough exit line to top.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised.
"Yes."
"That's… crazy, Sookie.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

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

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: 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.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“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.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail

Source: Dead as a Doornail

“Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?"
One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”

Charlaine Harris

“Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail

Source: Dead as a Doornail

“They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“Life begins at night”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror.

"It's me," said a familiar voice.

…"Eric, what are you doing here?"

"Snuggling.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“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)”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

“Coffe is the perfume of morning.”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“I am self-educated from genre books.”

Charlaine Harris

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail

Source: Dead as a Doornail

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.”

Charlaine Harris book Definitely Dead

Source: Definitely Dead

“He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.”

Charlaine Harris

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

Charlaine Harris book Shakespeare's Landlord

Source: Shakespeare's Landlord

“As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My… Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

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

Charlaine Harris book Dead Reckoning

Source: Dead Reckoning

“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.”

Charlaine Harris Grave Sight

Source: Grave Sight

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

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

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

“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.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

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