Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

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"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, Dead as a Doornail

"In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could."

Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

"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."

Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

"I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on."

Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

"My bullshit metre is reading that as false'."

Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail