Charlaine Harris: i hate not knowing what i did."

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

Charlaine Harris

vacation reading book

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Charlaine Harris

woman-worth salt women

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

Charlaine Harris

vampire secret stuff

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Charlaine Harris

vampire possessive book

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Charlaine Harris

optimistic love life

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

Charlaine Harris

ex-boyfriend dating relationship

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.

Charlaine Harris

pages writing book

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Charlaine Harris

please ifs writing

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Charlaine Harris

forgiveness regret moving

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

Charlaine Harris

between-you-and-me like-me ifs

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

information book people

You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.

Charlaine Harris

party humorous night

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

gay rights thinking

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.

Charlaine Harris

tired design names

I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't." "The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.

Charlaine Harris

calm queens serious

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

magic miracle thinking

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

reading mother children

It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.

Charlaine Harris

brother home son

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Charlaine Harris

kidnapped insulted enough

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Charlaine Harris

boring fiction interesting

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric