Top 200 Charlaine Harris Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

153. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

154. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

155. “Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

159. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

160. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

161. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

164. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

166. “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

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

170. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

172. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

173. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

174. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

175. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

176. “Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.”

— Charlaine Harris

177. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

178. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

180. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

181. “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.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

183. “I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.”

— Charlaine Harris

184. “Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

186. “No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

188. “Weirdly, strangely – wonderfully – he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

190. “I’m a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter’s softball games.”

— Charlaine Harris

191. “God bless the American spectator.”

— Charlaine Harris

192. “There were toes. Those toes wouldn’t be happy piggies. But they didn’t have any right to be in the way.”

— Charlaine Harris

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

— Charlaine Harris

194. “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

195. “But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked 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

196. “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

197. “But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother’s favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.”

— Charlaine Harris

198. “Mack and Denise had been in jail for vampire draining. Deeply upset, I nevertheless automatically carried a pitcher of beer and some glasses to a raucous table of four. Since vampire blood was supposed to temporarily relieve symptoms of illness and increase sexual potency, kind of like prednisone and Viagra rolled into one, there was a huge black market for genuine, undiluted vampire blood. Where there’s a market there are suppliers; in this case, I’d just learned, the scummy Rat Couple.”

— Charlaine Harris

199. “I had a neat and tidy life in a messy world, and if sometimes I suspected I was trying to fulfill the stereotype of a small-town librarian, well, I had yearnings to play other roles, too.”

— Charlaine Harris

200. “Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let’s get back on the road,” the tall driver said, and his voice had that “I’m done with you” edge to it. “I don’t know who this guy is, but I don’t think he changes into a nutria.”

— Charlaine Harris