Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers Papaw
Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn’t read.
If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.
If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an importan...
I'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 shoe...
I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades. -Sookie
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...
I love the South, don’t get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.
I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't.The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to moc...
Angélique Sookie, toi qui es la beauté et la grâce incarnées, pardonne-moi. Je suis accablé à l'idée que cette ménade malfaisante et démoniaque ait pu oser violenter ce corps parfait et voluptueux qui...
That the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.
I hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night, For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you w...
Why bother to change, if you can't change into a wolf?
This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
The southern standard of niceness was this: You’d never been convicted of anything, you didn’t look at other’s women’s husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elder...
The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child.
The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.
Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek...