Quotes from Dead in the Family

“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, quote from Dead in the Family

“Coffe is the perfume of morning.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it".”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice.
'Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Can I help you up?”
"No,” she said bitterly. “I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor.”
"Bitch,” I said, squatting to help her up.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious.
'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?'
'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.'
I thought the top of my head would pop off...
(Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“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, quote from Dead in the Family

“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'
That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.
And I slept.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about it. In fact, probably he’d have sent Pam.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!'
- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?"
-Sookie Stackhouse”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“I would feel the urge to attack people, to bite them; they'd all be walking McBloodburgers to me.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count.
"But I'm an emotional eater," she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing.
"And I was real emotional in jail.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“La soledad es mucho más divertida si es opcional.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Al parecer, era la época de "abrazar a Sookie" y nadie me había avisado.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

“Te quiero -dijo- Nada de lo que hagas o digas podrá cambiarlo. Si me pidieras que enterrase un cadáver, o que me cargase a alguien, lo haría sin pestañear.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead in the Family

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I’d search the world for Heaven’s Door,

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I'd climb each step, without making a sound.

I’d arrive at the door of glimmering gold,

I’d slip through unnoticed, not stirring a soul.

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As you danced and you twirled, without any care.

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I’d treasure the sound, no more pain you’d endure.

I’d stay ‘til the sunset, when I’d have to leave,

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― Terri Irwin, quote from Steve & Me

“Personally, if I were trying to discourage people from smoking, my sign would be a little different. In fact, I might even go too far in the opposite direction. My sign would say something like, "Smoke if you wish. But if you do, be prepared for the following series of events: First, we will confiscate your cigarette and extinguish it somewhere on the surface of your skin. We will then run you nicotine-stained fingers through a paper shredder and throw them into the street, where wild dogs will swallow them and then regurgitate them into the sewers, so that infected rats can further soil them before they're flushed out to sea with the rest of the city's filth. After such time, we will sysematically seek out your friends and loved one and destroy their lives."
Wouldn't you like to see a sign like that?”
― George Carlin, quote from When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband greatly loved her.”
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“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”
― André Gide, quote from The Immoralist

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