01c. 1951 ADI have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADPeople stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADI'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 / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADI'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 / quote ↗
06c. 1951 ADWhen you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADI 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1951 ADAre 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADThis 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADI didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADA year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.''A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
13c. 1951 ADBut there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
14c. 1951 ADMy 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1951 AD.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADAnd you are mine, and you will be mine. Theywill not get you. - Eric from Dead and GoneCharlaine Harris / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADWhen 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1951 ADAs exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
19c. 1951 ADBut 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1951 ADMay 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 / quote ↗
21c. 1951 ADOkay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly."Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
23c. 1951 ADBut I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home.I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
24c. 1951 ADThe problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.Charlaine Harris / quote ↗
