“When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“So, what, you just decided to sack out here and seduce me when I walked in the door? Home from spending the night at my boyfriend's? After having sex with him that could go in the Guinness Book of Records?”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“There was nothing civilized about sex with Eric.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“I met Elvis in your woods one night,” Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. “I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“I was so sleepy (and sore) that another bout of sex was out of the question, unless Eric had suddenly developed an interest in necrophilia.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“That's just not right," Sam muttered. "Claude needs to keep his pants on.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“It's not enough that we have to handle our own race's problems," Claude said. "Now we're sucked into the fucking vampire struggles, too."
"No," I said, feeling I was walking uphill in this conversation. "You as a group weren't sucked into the vampire struggles. One of you was taken for a specific purpose. Different scenario.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“―Look. This
room is the Seal Room. See the big picture of the seal? And that room is the Pony Room.‖
―Is there a pony?‖ Hunter was an optimist.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“how shall we go about this?" Dermot asked. He was blond and Claude was dark; the looked like gorgeous bookends.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Would Eric enjoy being a Sooner? As I navigated through Shreveport, I wondered if Oklahoma vampires wore cowboy boots and knew all the songs from the musical.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Shall we stay out here, so we won't wake your friends?"
It was news to me that our conversation was going to last that long. Apparently, Bill hadn't come over just to borrow a cup of blood.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
Charlaine Harris
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“In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.”
― Gloria Steinem, quote from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
“posting will be at the unemployment office.” “I don’t think”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“Do you ask why I tortured and tormented myself? The answer is that it was too boring to sit and do nothing, and so I indulged my fancy.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Notes from Underground & The Double
“It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.”
― Kevin Brooks, quote from Martyn Pig
“I have a theory that he’s not actually as stupid as he likes to act, because often he’ll play the stupidity card in a really smart way .”
― David Clawson, quote from My Fairy Godmother Is a Drag Queen
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