Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

4. “Life begins at night.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

6. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

8. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

10. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

17. “Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

19. “Yikes. Yahoo. Yum.”

— Charlaine Harris

20. “Coffe is the perfume of morning.”

— Charlaine Harris

21. “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

22. “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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23. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

26. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

40. “As it was, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I’d left half-read at home and wishing I’d stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

— Charlaine Harris

41. “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

42. “There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.”

— Charlaine Harris

43. “I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. “Save the drama for your mama ” I told her just like an eleven-year-old.”

— Charlaine Harris

44. “I’d have to say no, people don’t change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

— Charlaine Harris

45. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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47. “Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool.”

— Charlaine Harris

48. “Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that’s exactly what I did.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

50. “They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.”

— Charlaine Harris