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Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.

Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.

When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages.

The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.

Following the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the "Midnight, Texas" books, which have become a television series, also. The Aurora Teagarden books have been adapted by Hallmark Movie & Mystery.

Charlaine is a member of many professional organizations, an Episcopalian, and currently the lucky houseparent to two rescue dogs. She lives on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River.


“My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.”
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“Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you." Eric: Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said. "Hey this isn't any of my doing," I said, which wasn't entirely true. But it was a good exit line, and I took advantage of it to leave the bar.”
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“You got no right being in my head. That's..trespassing”
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“What I think I'll do,' Alcide said, 'is I'll do my best to yank Debbie from my roots. And then I'll turn up at your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire." "And then we'll be happy ever after?" I smiled. He nodded.”
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“It's my partner," he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare.”
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“His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.”
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“Darling you can nail my ass anytime - Eric Northman”
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“The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door.So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.”
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“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”
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“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.”
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“Eric appeared to be counting my eyelashes. I tried to keep my gaze on my hands, to indicate modesty. I felt power tweaks kind of flow over me and had an uneasy feeling Eric was trying to influence me. I risked a quick peek, and sure enough he was looking at me expectantly. Was I supposed to pull off my dress? Bark like a dog? Kick Bill in the shins? Shit.”
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“[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you."[Sookie:] "Like a fungus?”
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“Al parecer, era la época de "abrazar a Sookie" y nadie me había avisado.”
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“La soledad es mucho más divertida si es opcional.”
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“Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.”
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“Intenté recoger mi mandíbula del suelo antes de que se diese cuenta de lo pasmada que me había dejado.”
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“Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.”
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“No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair.”
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“.. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted.”
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“What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.”
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“Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.”
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“Then I happened upon a whore.”
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“I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.”
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“Self pity was a drug. I must not become addicted. Self pity is like chocolate, as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”
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“Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.”
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“Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.”
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“It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds”
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“I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.”
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“Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.”
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“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.”
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“I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.”
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“The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.”
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“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.”
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“Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.”
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“When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.”
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“I have always been very fond of you." He'd always wanted to have sex with me. "Plus, I want to fuck you.”
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“Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.”
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“People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.”
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“The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.”
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“...but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, "All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.”
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“Te quiero -dijo- Nada de lo que hagas o digas podrá cambiarlo. Si me pidieras que enterrase un cadáver, o que me cargase a alguien, lo haría sin pestañear.”
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“When I went home…I promised myself, I would take a cool shower and I would read. After a day spent dealing with others, television was just one more batch of voices to listen to; I’d rather have a book in my hands than the remote control.”
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“Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.”
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“We can’t leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there’s the afterbirth.”
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“Lies will come back to bite you in the butt”
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“Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and wecan go to a baby shower!”“That would be something to see,” said Eric”
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“You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.”
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“She(Pam) said you had a habit of killing the bartenders of Fangtasia," Felicia said, her lovely doe eyes widewith amazement. "She said I must come to beg your mercy. But you just seem like a human, to me.”
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“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?"-Sookie Stackhouse”
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“I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.”
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