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d976808
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Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you.
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Charlaine Harris |
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6d43b2d
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Vampires, bringing America together!
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vampires
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Charlaine Harris |
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864c29e
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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.
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time
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Charlaine Harris |
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a5e8cf9
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I could feel the warmth of the dog through my nightgown; I must have gotten hot during the night and thrown off the sheet. I drowsily patted the animal's head and began to stroke his fur, my fingers running idly through the thick hair. He wriggled even closer, sniffed my face, put his arm around me. His *arm*? I was off the bed and shrieking in one move. In my bed, Sam propped himself on his elbows, sunny side up, and looked at me with some..
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dean
dean-the-collie
sam-merlotte
shapeshifters
sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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b56ef79
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Loveable Isn't he? -Eric Northman
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Charlaine Harris |
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a31e202
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But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.
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true-blood
sookie-stackhouse
werewolves
supernatural
vampires
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Charlaine Harris |
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2b264ed
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I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.
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Charlaine Harris |
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0f1fa3e
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But when I heard his voice, I felt content. When I was with him, I felt beautiful and happy. And there was nothing I could do about it.
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Charlaine Harris |
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4c8730d
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A place isn't really yours until you clean it.
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Charlaine Harris |
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e21f611
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There are times to think and times to lie fallow
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Charlaine Harris |
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2eb402f
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My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.
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Charlaine Harris |
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ab7e972
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Self pity was a drug. I must not become addicted. Self pity is like chocolate, as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
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Charlaine Harris |
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33430a7
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She won't win," Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate--everything I might have hoped would be reassuring. "You're sure?" I asked. "Yes, my lover. I'm sure." "But you're not here," I observed,
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Charlaine Harris |
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609276b
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There were toes. Those toes wouldn't be happy piggies. But they didn't have any right to be in the way.
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Charlaine Harris |
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e4b3134
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I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.
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Charlaine Harris |
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1d68ee9
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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."
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Charlaine Harris |
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854becb
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When the second hour of Fiji's open house was almost at an end, a mother from Davy said, "How on earth do you get it to look like the cat is talking?" "Oh, did it look realistic?" Fiji had to struggle to keep a smile on her face. "It was so cute! It said, 'Get off my tail or I'll smother you in your sleep.'" "Just some batteries and a CD!" Fiji said. "And isn't that just what a cat should say?" --
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Charlaine Harris |
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e15dded
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but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, "All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators."
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Charlaine Harris |
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02c1338
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Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers "Papaw"
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Charlaine Harris |
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2e5a7be
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No one expected to be safe until this century, if you read a little history. Think of the thousands of years before- years with no law, when the sword ruled. No widespread system of justice; no immunizations against disease. The local lord free to kill the husbands, husbands free to rape and kill their wives. Childbirth often fatal. No antibiotics. It's only here and now that women are raised believing they'll be safe. And it serves us fals..
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Charlaine Harris |
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8d6bf75
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Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.
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Charlaine Harris |
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3b179ae
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You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat?
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Charlaine Harris |
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9d8b8a9
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Manfred," I began, exasperated, "I just don't know what to do with you." "I have some very good ideas," he said. He waggled his eyebrows. He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet."
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manfred
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Charlaine Harris |
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f251fd7
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There is nothing more wonderful than feeling head-to-toe clean after you've been filthy, having a comfortable bed with clean sheets, being able to sleep in it in safety.
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Charlaine Harris |
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751dcf7
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In fact," Eric said, as he went to the front door, "I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it." He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood and tortoiseshell buttons."
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eric-northman
sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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c653dc9
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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."
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Charlaine Harris |
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73b0f06
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Maybe I felt like I'd come so close to forever-death that I'd better step back and take a look at my life. Maybe I didn't like a lot of what I'd done with it so far.
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sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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d4007b6
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I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades. -Sookie
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Charlaine Harris |
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e243165
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It's truly amazing what a good screw can do for your outlook, I thought.
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Charlaine Harris |
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a040044
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But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.
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flourishing
surviving
survival
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Charlaine Harris |
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db91f73
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It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell.
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telepaths
vampires-in-america
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Charlaine Harris |
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18f974b
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Their backs were to me, and the vampire hadn't seen me yet I loosened the coiled chain so a good three feet of it swung free. Who to attack first? They were both small and vicious. I remembered Mack's contemptuous dismissal and the fact that he never left me a tip. Mack first.
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mack
sookie
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Charlaine Harris |
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eabe274
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I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up inside, with a little table beside it just big enough to hold a book and a coffee cup.
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Charlaine Harris |
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df5f9b1
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,
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Charlaine Harris |
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403c948
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Maybe I hadn't been a big dating success because I was a boring person, but possibly it had been because I had limited tolerance for all this preliminary maneuvering and signal reading. - Aurora
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humourous-quote
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Charlaine Harris |
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c57a9ea
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If weeds could flourish with such vigor, may I could, too.
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Charlaine Harris |
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120d6c7
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For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.
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harris
deadlocked
dermot
sookie
stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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4288c41
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Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she'd played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor. I was profoundly glad I hadn't been having an affair with her husband.
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harper
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Charlaine Harris |
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85a751f
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It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.
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Charlaine Harris |
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2b5c9ec
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Do you want a drink?" "You mean synthetic blood," she said after a slight hesitation. "Yes, that would be nice. A sociable gesture." "I'm all about the gestures. Bubba, you, too?" "Yes, ma'am, I reckon so," he said."
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Charlaine Harris |
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9a2c01f
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I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought, and I'd spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.
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Charlaine Harris |
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3dfa5ef
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red high-heeled screw-me shoes.
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Charlaine Harris |
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44a4a0c
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Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.
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Charlaine Harris |
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cd8eb95
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We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.
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Charlaine Harris |