110+ Charlaine Harris Quotes On Death, Religion And Morality

Charlaine Harris is an American author who is best known for her Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which was adapted into the HBO television series True Blood. She also wrote the Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and Lily Bard mystery series, as well as the Midnight, Texas fantasy series. Her work has been published in over 20 languages and has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Charlaine Harris on life, death, religion.

Top 10 Charlaine Harris Quotes

1. Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
2. And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?
3. You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.
4. Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.
5. You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.
6. Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
7. My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
8. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
9. "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." "Like a fungus?
10. Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Charlaine Harris Short Quotes

• Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
• Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
• Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!
• You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta
• Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
• Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
• Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
• I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
• I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
• I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

Charlaine Harris Quotes About Life

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share. — Charlaine Harris

I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia. — Charlaine Harris

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

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. — Charlaine Harris

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy. — Charlaine Harris

Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life — Charlaine Harris

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others. — Charlaine Harris

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

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated. — Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often. — Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Quotes About God

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

Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire. — Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. — Charlaine Harris

God bless the American spectator. — Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Quotes About Happiness

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

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due — Charlaine Harris

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

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it. — Charlaine Harris

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. — Charlaine Harris

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women. — Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Famous Quotes And Sayings

Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one. — Charlaine Harris

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

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that. — Charlaine Harris

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

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

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

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

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you. — Charlaine Harris

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman — Charlaine Harris

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans! — Charlaine Harris

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

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful. — Charlaine Harris

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

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

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

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

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse. — Charlaine Harris

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy. — Charlaine Harris

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome. — Charlaine Harris

Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." "Get out of my bed!" -Sookie Stackhouse, Eric Northman — Charlaine Harris

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you. — Charlaine Harris

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. — Charlaine Harris

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger. — Charlaine Harris

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth. — Charlaine Harris

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds — Charlaine Harris

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were. — Charlaine Harris

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

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric. — Charlaine Harris

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter. — Charlaine Harris

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it. — Charlaine Harris

Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family) — Charlaine Harris

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter — Charlaine Harris

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top. — Charlaine Harris

We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club. — Charlaine Harris

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. — Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. — Charlaine Harris

Coffe is the perfume of morning. — Charlaine Harris

No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling. — Charlaine Harris

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads. — Charlaine Harris

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons. — Charlaine Harris

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up. — Charlaine Harris

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly — Charlaine Harris

I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra. — Charlaine Harris

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

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

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you. — Charlaine Harris

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me. — Charlaine Harris

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

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone — Charlaine Harris

...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you." "Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too. — Charlaine Harris

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

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club — Charlaine Harris

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous. — Charlaine Harris

Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with. — Charlaine Harris

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

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire. — Charlaine Harris

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes. — Charlaine Harris

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest. — Charlaine Harris

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed. — Charlaine Harris

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what? — Charlaine Harris

You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just perfect. Let me do just that, or I'll lose track." Sure, glad I could help." Oh, you surely did." We beamed at each other, just two nice women. I had to fight an impulse to say "I have a tortured vampire in my trunk," out of sheer giddiness. — Charlaine Harris

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

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself. — Charlaine Harris

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear. — Charlaine Harris

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

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. — Charlaine Harris

"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear. — Charlaine Harris

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

As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again. — Charlaine Harris

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you. — Charlaine Harris

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me. — Charlaine Harris

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies. — Charlaine Harris

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working. — Charlaine Harris

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman. — Charlaine Harris

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

She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare. — Charlaine Harris

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees. — Charlaine Harris

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most. — Charlaine Harris

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things. — Charlaine Harris

Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. — Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris

Life Lessons by Charlaine Harris

1. Charlaine Harris teaches us the importance of embracing our unique perspectives and stories, no matter how different they may be from the mainstream.
2. She also emphasizes the power of creating strong female characters, who are complex and capable of overcoming obstacles and achieving their goals.
3. Finally, her work encourages us to explore the darker aspects of life and to confront our fears and anxieties in order to find strength and courage.