Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”

— Charlaine Harris

2. “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

— Charlaine Harris

3. “They say there’s no harm in daydreaming, but there is.”

— Charlaine Harris

4. “Life begins at night.”

— Charlaine Harris

5. “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

6. “My gran had always told me that a woman – any woman worth her salt – could do whatever she had to.”

— Charlaine Harris

7. “If I have to choose between you and me – I like me better.”

— Charlaine Harris

8. “You know I love you more when you’re cold and heartless.”

— Charlaine Harris

9. “You won’t find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta.”

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10. “Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”

— Charlaine Harris

11. “I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.”

— Charlaine Harris

12. “If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down – or cheeks up.”

— Charlaine Harris

13. “No blame, no hate – why no communication?”

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14. “Darling, you can nail my ass anytime,” he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.”

— Charlaine Harris

15. “If I quit having fun, then it’s time for me to quit working.”

— Charlaine Harris

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16. “Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.”

— Charlaine Harris

17. “I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.”

— Charlaine Harris

18. “The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there’s light, you can just see what’s coming for you a little more clearly.”

— Charlaine Harris

19. “Silver, gold – I don’t discriminate! I like sparkly things.”

— Charlaine Harris

20. “My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.”

— Charlaine Harris

21. “You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

— Charlaine Harris

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22. “Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!”

— Charlaine Harris

23. “His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.”

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24. “Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.”

— Charlaine Harris

25. “Coffe is the perfume of morning.”

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26. “What are you, Zen Master Fang?”

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27. “It can be tiring knowing so many people with hidden depths,” Joe said. “Some days, shallow is good.”

— Charlaine Harris

28. “Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.”

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29. “It’s a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds.”

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30. “I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.”

— Charlaine Harris

31. “Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.”

— Charlaine Harris

32. “It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.”

— Charlaine Harris

33. “The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

— Charlaine Harris

34. “Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.”

— Charlaine Harris

35. “We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”

— Charlaine Harris

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36. “Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.” And then he opened the door.”

— Charlaine Harris

37. “I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.”

— Charlaine Harris

38. “It was one of God’s jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

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39. “You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ’cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.”

— Charlaine Harris

40. “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

41. “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

42. “It’s probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he’s absolutely lethal.”

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43. “The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.”

— Charlaine Harris

44. “It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.”

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45. “Everyone thinks I’m crazy, you know, because I can’t tell them the truth; which is, that I’m driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

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46. “I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.”

— Charlaine Harris

47. “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

48. “Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.”

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49. “A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.”

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50. “Gay rights is just one of the social issues I’m interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.”

— Charlaine Harris