Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.”

— Charlaine Harris

152. “This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.”

— Charlaine Harris

153. “As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn’t take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.”

— Charlaine Harris

154. “My first word for the New Year was ‘exsanguinate.’ This was probably not a good omen.”

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155. “He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”

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156. “It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that’s the way I am. I knew I’d feel better. It was living until then that was hard.”

— Charlaine Harris

157. “It’s not that I approve of murder – but some people just beg to be killed, don’t they?”

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158. “He was as tenacious as a pit bull, but with half the brain power and none of the looks.”

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159. “Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric.”

— Charlaine Harris

160. “The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child.”

— Charlaine Harris

161. “Least said soonest meanded.”

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162. “Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.”

— Charlaine Harris

163. “I don’t write the kind of ‘happily ever after’ that romance readers enjoy.”

— Charlaine Harris

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164. “Just because one of Arlene’s husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly.”

— Charlaine Harris

165. “I’ve often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I’m just in awe of that.”

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166. “Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn’t really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that – at the moment – I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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168. “I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they’d never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.”

— Charlaine Harris

169. “I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.”

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170. “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

171. “Weird doesn’t equal morally bankrupt.”

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

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173. “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

174. “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

175. “I’ve got libraries in my blood.”

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176. “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

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

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

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

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180. “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.”

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

— Charlaine Harris

182. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

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185. “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

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

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

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188. “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.”

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189. “It’s hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

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

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191. “Better to be screwed physically than financially.”

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192. “My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don’t lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.”

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193. “Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. “This woman has been mine, and she will be mine” he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.”

— Charlaine Harris

194. “He didn’t exactly look kind, but he looked less detached. “He was your enemy, and now he is dead,” he said. “This is cause for rejoicing.” “Not exactly,” I said. I didn’t know how to explain. “You’re a Christian,” he said, as if he’d discovered I was a hermaphrodite or a fruitarian. “I’m a real bad one,” I said hurriedly. His lips compressed, and I could see he was trying hard not to laugh.”

— Charlaine Harris

195. “I dipped into his brain. He wasn’t happy that I wasn’t wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he’d better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.”

— Charlaine Harris

196. “I couldn’t speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again.”

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197. “I started to say that couldn’t happen, that the people I knew wouldn’t turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn’t say that, because I wondered if it was the truth.”

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198. “Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.”

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199. “Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.”

— Charlaine Harris

200. “Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.”

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