Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “When you’ve been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.”

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102. “Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.”

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103. “Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.”

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104. “You have a vampire living in your basement, and you’re stunned by a talking cat?”

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105. “Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.”

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106. “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.”

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107. “That was an idea I didn’t want to have. But you can’t erase a thought; once you’ve had it, it’s there to stay.”

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108. “Life should imitate romance literature far more often.”

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109. “There’s not much I dislike more than being addressed as “Hey you” and being poked with a finger.”

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110. “Sometimes you just have to roll in it.”

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111. “People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.”

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112. “It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.”

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113. “As exits go, that’s a good one.” It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”

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114. “And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”

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115. “No threatening the cat!” Mr. Snuggly said.”

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116. “Of course I am grateful, and I’m sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage,” Bill said politely, “But I have my own wine cellar.”

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117. “Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”

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118. “If Hunter hadn’t been there, I would’ve picked up the phone to call Eric. I would’ve asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about it. In fact, probably he’d have sent Pam.”

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119. “I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.”

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120. “If it’s easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I’m thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

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121. “He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. “You are beautiful”. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.”

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122. “Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!”

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123. “I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

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124. “There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that’s why so many of us like television so much.”

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125. “You were so sweet when you didn’t know who you were.”

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126. “Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.”

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127. “I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!”

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128. “Why bother to change, if you can’t change into a wolf?”

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129. “What I think I’ll do is I’ll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I’ll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I’ll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.”

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130. “I could add her to the long list of people I didn’t understand.”

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131. “Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I’d been given. I hoped God hadn’t noticed my lapse in appreciation.”

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132. “We might be on the same page, but I wasn’t happy about reading it.”

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133. “Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology,” said Bill Compton, vampire.”

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134. “In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.”

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135. “Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “Everyone was getting married or falling in love. I was happy for them. Happy, happy, happy. I pasted a smile on my face and went to Piggly Wiggly.”

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138. “I think forgiveness doesn’t happen overnight. I think it comes in increments. When someone has made your life hell, maybe you have to recover from the fear and anger first? Before you start working on the other thing.”

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139. “Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.”

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140. “This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness.”

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141. “JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.”

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142. “I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.”

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143. “Jason’s favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.”

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144. “The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.”

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145. “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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146. “It wasn’t enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.”

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147. “And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. – Eric from Dead and Gone.”

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148. “That’s just not right,” Sam muttered. “Claude needs to keep his pants on.”

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149. “It was one of those nights that made me wonder how the humans around me could be so oblivious to the other world operating right beside ours. Only willful ignorance could ignore the charge of magic in the air. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.”

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150. “God bless the American spectator.”

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