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

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

Vampires, bringing America together!

— Charlaine Harris

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

— Charlaine Harris

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. Furthermore, I would help you.

— Charlaine Harris

We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.' That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood. And I slept.

— Charlaine Harris

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

— Charlaine Harris

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

When 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

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

— Charlaine Harris