Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

“By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."
I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.
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."
That's more like it.”
― Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

“Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone

“Sometimes the bitch wins.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.”
― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead

“My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

“If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

“They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“I am self-educated from genre books.”
― Charlaine Harris

“He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.”
― Charlaine Harris

“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”
― Charlaine Harris

“I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.”
― Charlaine Harris, Definitely Dead

“A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

“Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

“When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone

“You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

“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, Grave Sight

“This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness”
― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”
― Charlaine Harris, Last Scene Alive

“Bring it on, fur-ass!”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning

“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, Dead and Gone

“I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'

If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone

“Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile.
Where is Superman when you need him?”
― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead