Charlaine Harris Quotes

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“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”

“This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.”

“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.”

“You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.”

“I don't like having feelings," _Eric Northman”

“Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me."
Well, that was pretty direct.”

“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.”

“A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.”

“[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you."
[Sookie:] "Like a fungus?”

“Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.”

“Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.”

“The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you”

“You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.”

“I am here," Eric said.
"And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique.
"Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
"Eric, my big bullshitter.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.”

“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.”

“Better to be screwed physically than financially.”

“This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me.”

“(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.”

“If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

“Sookie: Is Eric around?"
Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin”

“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

“My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.”

“I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t.

“That’s what you all keep saying,” I answered. “But it doesn’t seem to get me any happier.”

“i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.”

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

“Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.”

“Sookie, my little blood-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
Eric, my big bullshitter.”

“Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly”

“My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.”

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

“i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.”

“He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”

“As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”

“JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.”

“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.”

“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”

“All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.”

“Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.”

“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”