This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark. Thanks for the encouragement.
The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .
The vampire changed the music from some heavy metal thing to Sarah Mc-Lachlan’s Good Enough, which is slow, but with a beat.
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 t...
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A...
The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.
The fae were gone from America. Their departure point? Bon Temps, Louisiana. The woods behind my house.
Sookie, Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. Yield to me.Well, that was pretty direct.
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?I killed a chicken. And I cooked it.
Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane’s legacy wasn’t entirely benevolent.
Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.
Since he’d had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew),
She’s lazy. That extends to her friendships. 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 killed Lorena in a fight? Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.
She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk’s revealing their physical intimacy.
Pam said, Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ...
Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage, Bill said politely, But I have my own wine cellar.
Now! I told myself briskly, to ward off the melancholy, as I dumped my cup and wrapper in the trash bin and left the restaurant. Now to work, then home, then out on a real date, and tomorrow get out e...
Nothing had been poured out of its container or wantonly vandalized, but the contents had been moved as though the cabinet itself were the object of the search, not possible loot that could be taken a...