“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, quote from Dead and Gone
“Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“Darling you can nail my ass anytime - Eric Northman”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“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, quote from Dead and Gone
“I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'
If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“I'M SCARED I'LL SHOOT MY NEIGHBOR BY ACCIDENT IF I SEE HIM TROTTING DOWN THE ROAD, SAID A FARMER IN KANSAS, WHAT IF HE GETS AFTER MY CHICKENS?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you." Eric: Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said. "Hey this isn't any of my doing," I said, which wasn't entirely true. But it was a good exit line, and I took advantage of it to leave the bar.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you."
Eric: "Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.
Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“He didn’t exactly look kind, but he looked less detached. “He was your enemy, and now he is dead,” he said. “This is cause for rejoicing.” “Not exactly,” I said. I didn’t know how to explain. “You’re a Christian,” he said, as if he’d discovered I was a hermaphrodite or a fruitarian. “I’m a real bad one,” I said hurriedly. His lips compressed, and I could see he was trying hard not to laugh.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“I got up the next day at noon, feeling as relaxed as a cat in a pool of sunshine,”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“You want to own your own life,” Eric said. “As much as anyone can.” “Just when I think you’re very simple, you say something complex,” Eric said. “Are you complaining?” I tried to smile, failed. “No.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“I started to say that couldn’t happen, that the people I knew wouldn’t turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn’t say that, because I wondered if it was the truth.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
“Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
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― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead and Gone
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“Man sets his hand to games of power and influence, he quests for far horizons and wealth beyond imagining. He thinks to own what cannot be possessed. He hews the ancient trees to broaden his grazing lands; he mines the deep caves and topples the standing stones. He embraces a new faith with fervor and, perhaps, with sincerity. But he grows ever further from the old things. He can no longer hear the heartbeat of the earth, his mother. He cannot smell the change in the air; he cannot see what lies beyond the veil of shadows. Even his new god is formed in his own image, for do they not call him the son of man? By his own choice he is cut adrift from the ancient cycles of sun and moon, the ordered passing of the seasons. And without him, the Fair Folk dwindle and are nothing. They retreat and hide themselves, and are reduced to the clurichaun with his little ale jug; the brownie who steals the cow's milk at Samhain; the half-heard wailing of the banshee. They become no more than a memory in the mind of a frail old man; a tale told by a crazy old woman.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Child of the Prophecy
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Member of the Wedding
“My bundle is light.
My burden is heavy.”
― Patricia McCormick, quote from Sold
“O perpetual revolution of configured stars, o perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, o world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; knowledge of speech, but not of silence; knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Waste Land and Other Poems
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained—as the beliefs, rituals, and iconography of each of our religions attest to centuries of crosspollination among them.”
― Sam Harris, quote from The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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