I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. I knew I'd get on top of you somehow, he said.Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am? No, I'm just oppo...
I have no idea. You know what’s really scary? What? No one will tell you. Like who? Anyone. It’s the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I’m up against. So I ask my best friend, she’s had two....
I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn’t imagi...
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people.Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irrepar...
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.
I abjure you, Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. I see you no lon...
His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.
His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.I don't know much, I confessed, my voice barely audible.Don't worry. I know a lot.
Hey, our hair's the same color, I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror.Sure is, Girlfriend. Eric grinned at me. But are you blond all the way down?Don't you wish you knew?Yes, he said simply.Wel...
Hey, neighbor, exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortab...
Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she’d played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor.I was profoundly glad I hadn’t been having an a...
He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. You are beautiful. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and...
Half of me (pathetically) wanted to let him know I'd kept the faith; half of me wanted to get in the toolshed and sharpen me some stakes.
Grief was boring. This was a shallow thought about a deep subject, but it was a valid observation.
Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.
Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.
Fiji, I’m betting you don’t drink a lot, he said, trying to suppress a smile. I don’t, she confessed. How did you know? Just a lucky guess. You think he’d like my phone number? Feej, that guy is tough...
Everyone was getting married or falling in love. I was happy for them. Happy, happy, happy. I pasted a smile on my face and went to Piggly Wiggly.
Every now and then I felt like I was Bill's doll.
Even at the beginning of fall—which is only a date on the calendar in Texas;