Quotes from Definitely Dead

“I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Though I was having a blissful moment of being happy and content, I had one of those stray ideas you get at odd moments. I thought,How nice it would be if Eric were here with me in the car. He'd look so good with the wind blowing his hair, and he'd enjoy the moment . Well, yeah, before he burned to a crisp.
But I realized I'd thought of Eric because it was the kind of day you wanted to share with the person you cared about, the person whose company you enjoyed the most. And that would be Eric as he'd been while he was cursed by a witch: the Eric who hadn't been hardened by centuries of vampire politics, the Eric who had no contempt for humans and their affairs, the Eric who was not in charge of many financial enterprises and responsible for the lives and incomes of quite a few humans and vampires. In other words, Eric as he would never be again.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.

His passion had been artificial.

His pursuit of me had been choreographed.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice.
He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him.
I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“I never set out to be a one-night-stand kinda woman. I want to be sure, if I have sex with you, that it's because you want to be around for a while and because you like me for who I am, not what I am.

Maybe a million women had made approximately the same speech. I meant it as sincerely as any one of those million.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons."
I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Eric had fang showing.

"Hello, Eric," Quinn said calmly. His deep voice rumbled along my spine. "Sookie, you look good enough to eat." He smiled at me, and the tremors along my spine spread into another area entirely. I would never have believed that in Eric's presence I could think another man was attractive. I'd have been wrong to think so.

"You look very nice, too," I said, trying not to beam like an idiot. It was not cool to drool.

Eric said, "What have you been telling Sookie, Quinn?"

The two tall men looked at each other. I didn't believe I was the source of their animosity. I was a symptom, not the disease. Something lay underneath this.

"I've been telling Sookie that the queen requires Sookie's presence at the conference as part of her party, and that the queen's summons supercedes yours," Quinn said flatly.

"Since when has the queen given orders through a shifter?" Eric said, contempt flattening his voice.

"Since this shifter performed a valuable service for her in the line of business," Quinn answered, with no hesitation. "Mr. Cataliades suggested to Her Majesty that I might be helpful in a diplomatic capacity, and my partners were glad to give me extra time to perform any duties she might give me."

I wasn't totally sure I was following this, but I got the gist of it.

Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my Word of the Day calendar. In fact, his eyes were almost throwing sparks, he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine," he said, in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“This woman has been mine, and she will be mine' he said, in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“There were toes. Those toes wouldn’t be happy piggies. But they didn’t have any right to be in the way.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door.
So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“Nunca fui uma mulher de relações de uma noite só. Quero ter a certeza, se dormir contigo, de que o faço porque queres passar algum tempo comigo e porque gostas de mim por quem eu sou e não pelo que sou.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“I’d been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

“was electrified. I had never really thought the queen could have truly loved Hadley, but I saw now that she had, as much as she was able. We watched Hadley glance at the television from time to time while she painted her toenails, drank a phantom glass of blood, and made a phone call. We couldn’t hear her. We could only see, and that within a limited range. The object she reached for would appear the minute her hand touched it, but not before, so you could be sure of what she had only when she began to use it. When she leaned forward to replace the glass of”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Definitely Dead

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