Quotes from Dead as a Doornail

“Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you’d ever had." (At the time he couldn’t recall all the sex he’d ever had. But he’d paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you can’t remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.
Eric looked like I’d hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“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, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“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, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“i hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Lies will come back to bite you in the butt”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“we had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Why bother to change, if you can't change into a wolf?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“There are times to think and times to lie fallow”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Tearing down is always easier than building up,”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“Ar trebui sa se puna o pancarta pe care sa crie: "Loc de parcare pentru cei care comit atacuri nocturne asupra lui Sookie".”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“What pretty nail polish,' Eric said, smiling. [...] Trust Eric to pick out the one thing that was new and different about me.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

“To heck with him, I thought righteously. Him and the horse he rode in on.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead as a Doornail

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