“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

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American writer 1951

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