[Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?' [Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penn...
[..] red high-heeled screw-me shoes.
You, on the other hand, are a sweet little éclair on the outside and a pit bull on the inside.
Why on earth did she do this? I asked Bubba Sewell. Do you know? When she came in to make her will, last year when there was all that trouble with the club you two were in, she said that this was the...
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.
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
To heck with him, I thought righteously. Him and the horse he rode in on.
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had bette...
Though I didn’t mind being by myself from time to time—in fact, I enjoyed it—I’d had a little too much of it lately. And being alone is a lot more fun if it’s optional.
They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.
There is nothing more wonderful than feeling head-to-toe clean after you've been filthy, having a comfortable bed with clean sheets, being able to sleep in it in safety.
Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.
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 t...
Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept.
Should I just bite you, and end it all?, he whispered. I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.
Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
Nunca fui uma mulher de relações de uma noite só. Quero ter a certeza, se dormir contigo, de que o faço porque queres passar algum tempo comigo e porque gostas de mim por quem eu sou e não pelo que so...
No, of course I don’t mind paying the electric bill. Do Parnell and Leah have a key? No, Jane was firm about that. Parnell came to me and offered to go through and get Jane’s clothes and things packed...
No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.