Life begins at night

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.

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 shoes...

I’ve got libraries in my blood.

You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic....

I didn’t know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie”. – Eric, Club dead.

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

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...

Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging...

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I’d been given. I hoped God hadn’t noticed my lapse in appreciation.

I have a big hole in my heart,” I said. “But it’ll close over.”I don’t want to sound all Dr. Phil,” she said. “But don’t let the scab seal the pain in, okay?”That’s good advice,”...

Kennedy’s issue didn’t seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she’d told me, and it has been high on...

It was one of God’s jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.”Ick!’ I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

In fact,” Eric said, as he went to the front door, “I’d throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it.”He left, closing the door behind him very quietly.I knew, as sure as I knew my name,...

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

I had two cups of coffee, put Eric’s jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of...

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

Are you a prude?’ He seemed genuinely curious.’No!’ But after a second, I said, ‘But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you...

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

I am self-educated from genre books.

A year ago,’ I said, ‘you wouldn’t have asked this of me.”A year ago,’ he answered, ‘you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.’ I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it’s gonna please somebody else.

My bullshit meter is reading that as ‘false’.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I didn’t see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. – Sam

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method...

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and...

My gran had always told me that a woman–any woman worth her salt–could do whatever she had to.

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we’re bonded, but because the love I have for you.” ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

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...

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

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

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don’t lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.”That’s interesting,” he said. “I had a psychic once. It...

As exits go, that’s a good one.” It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Angélique Sookie, toi qui es la beauté et la gr ce 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 est...

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...

And you are mine, and you will be mine. Theywill not get you. – Eric from Dead and Gone

You’re lips are bloody.’ He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It’s hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

My bullshit metre is reading that as false’.

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about...

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

How is Eric?”Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he’ll tell you about.”Thanks for the warning. I’ll go to the house now. You’re my favorite breather.”Oh. Well … great.’She hung up.