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CHARLAINE HARRIS It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolut...
CHARLAINE HARRIS My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstab...
CHARLAINE HARRIS If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Fuck a zombie!
CHARLAINE HARRIS You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
CHARLAINE HARRIS The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, eviden...
CHARLAINE HARRIS .. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission bein...
CHARLAINE HARRIS You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less...
CHARLAINE HARRIS People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Sookie, my little bullet-sucker"
Eric, my big bullshitter
CHARLAINE HARRIS If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Bring it on, fur-ass!
CHARLAINE HARRIS Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric,"...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both...
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 e...
CHARLAINE HARRIS He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the ch...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.
CHARLAINE HARRIS A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled.
“Shoo,” Eric s...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, dig...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.
CHARLAINE HARRIS (Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a ho...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was d...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very...
CHARLAINE HARRIS We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" h...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep
CHARLAINE HARRIS As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to ma...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume other...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hal...
CHARLAINE HARRIS It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it c...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
CHARLAINE HARRIS ...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageou...
CHARLAINE HARRIS We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could g...
CHARLAINE HARRIS If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.
CHARLAINE HARRIS You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that wa...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of ne...
CHARLAINE HARRIS We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'
That seemed incredibly we...
CHARLAINE HARRIS When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had t...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay...
CHARLAINE HARRIS This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.'
'Ick!...
CHARLAINE HARRIS My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.
CHARLAINE HARRIS How grateful are you?" he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and...
CHARLAINE HARRIS My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn�...
CHARLAINE HARRIS A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.'
'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wo...
CHARLAINE HARRIS No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.

"Sure is, g...
CHARLAINE HARRIS By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my s...
CHARLAINE HARRIS .. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because...
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. P...
CHARLAINE HARRIS So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I am self-educated from genre books.
CHARLAINE HARRIS And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone
CHARLAINE HARRIS The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long...
CHARLAINE HARRIS For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That&...
CHARLAINE HARRIS If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every bo...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
CHARLAINE HARRIS No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I like sparkly things.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usuall...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
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...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
JOANNE HARRIS The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sci...
SAM HARRIS Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and...
SAM HARRIS Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and...
SAM HARRIS The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one...
SAM HARRIS On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely o...
SAM HARRIS The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential change...
SAM HARRIS Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teacher...
SAM HARRIS One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next ...
SAM HARRIS My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiot...
SAM HARRIS While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit...
SAM HARRIS Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...
SAM HARRIS While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all ...
SAM HARRIS Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's point...
SAM HARRIS I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessari...
SAM HARRIS The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way i...
SAM HARRIS I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo...
KAMALA HARRIS I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do th...
KAMALA HARRIS Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
KAMALA HARRIS I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know ...
KAMALA HARRIS In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is ea...
KAMALA HARRIS I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
KAMALA HARRIS I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisio...
KAMALA HARRIS So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
KAMALA HARRIS I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
KAMALA HARRIS What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are...
KAMALA HARRIS Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline a...
KAMALA HARRIS I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of...
KAMALA HARRIS These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that pho...
KAMALA HARRIS You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
KAMALA HARRIS I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly de...
KAMALA HARRIS We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a persona...
KAMALA HARRIS To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstandin...
KAMALA HARRIS My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you'r...
KAMALA HARRIS What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it...
KAMALA HARRIS The American dream belongs to all of us.
KAMALA HARRIS I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
KAMALA HARRIS But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying s...
MARVIN HARRIS To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
RACHAEL HARRIS I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
RACHAEL HARRIS I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do...
RACHAEL HARRIS I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been...
RACHAEL HARRIS I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened,...
RACHAEL HARRIS I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura L...
RACHAEL HARRIS I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this ot...
RACHAEL HARRIS See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to imp...
RACHAEL HARRIS I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my ever...
RACHAEL HARRIS In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to b...
RACHAEL HARRIS I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
RACHAEL HARRIS Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in ...
RACHAEL HARRIS It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy....
RACHAEL HARRIS I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where e...
RACHAEL HARRIS I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good...
RACHAEL HARRIS When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic...
RACHAEL HARRIS Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. ...
RACHAEL HARRIS As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my hous...
RACHAEL HARRIS The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized n...
SAM HARRIS Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they w...
NAOMIE HARRIS I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
NAOMIE HARRIS I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
NAOMIE HARRIS I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it wa...
NAOMIE HARRIS I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have y...
NAOMIE HARRIS Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
NAOMIE HARRIS Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. Y...
NAOMIE HARRIS Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates w...
NAOMIE HARRIS I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
NAOMIE HARRIS I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
NAOMIE HARRIS There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn u...
NAOMIE HARRIS Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
NAOMIE HARRIS I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're gratef...
NAOMIE HARRIS When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and a...
NAOMIE HARRIS I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
NAOMIE HARRIS I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
NAOMIE HARRIS I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow...
NAOMIE HARRIS I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for univers...
NAOMIE HARRIS Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
NAOMIE HARRIS Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered ...
SAM HARRIS I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS [In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrit...
ED HARRIS I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessar...
ED HARRIS I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
ED HARRIS I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time...
ED HARRIS I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS A lot of films come out before they're finished.
ED HARRIS If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil...
ED HARRIS One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
ED HARRIS I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
ED HARRIS I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter...
ED HARRIS I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it...
ED HARRIS I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
ED HARRIS I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administratio...
ED HARRIS