Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “He looked like he’d just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...”

— Charlaine Harris

102. “I had two cups of coffee, put Eric’s jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was ‘exsanguinate.’ This was probably not a good omen.”

— Charlaine Harris

103. “But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone’s assets, no matter how much on display they were.”

— Charlaine Harris

104. “I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.”

— Charlaine Harris

105. “The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.”

— Charlaine Harris

106. “Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.”

— Charlaine Harris

107. “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?”

— Charlaine Harris

108. “Bring it on, fur-ass!”

— Charlaine Harris

109. “Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn’t have her own fairy godmother.”

— Charlaine Harris

110. “My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.”

— Charlaine Harris

111. “Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”

— Charlaine Harris

112. “Bill said, “She is mine.” I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said “Sookie!” in shocked admonishment. “I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself,” Eric said softly.”

— Charlaine Harris

113. “If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.”

— Charlaine Harris

114. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

115. “I added to my mental list of the odd things I’d done that day. I’d entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn’t over yet.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

117. “Sweetheart,” Bill said formally, “I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I’m gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.”

— Charlaine Harris

118. “This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark. Thanks for the encouragement.”

— Charlaine Harris

119. “People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.”

— Charlaine Harris

120. “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

121. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

122. “Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

124. “Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

126. “I’m supposed to be a christian, but most days I don’t feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can’t sleep, I think about the other people who didn’t care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I’d feel if they died.”

— Charlaine Harris

127. “If it pleases you and you can write at all, it’s gonna please somebody else.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

129. “I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

132. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

133. “Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

135. “Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

137. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

141. “He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone’s pumpkin.”

— Charlaine Harris

142. “There are three motels in Davy if you go north, and at least six over in Marthasville if you go west. If you go to the interstate, there are a skadillion places to stay.”

— Charlaine Harris

143. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

145. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

146. “I am self-educated from genre books.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

148. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris