I wish,” I said. “I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

Ha,” I said. “Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?”One,” said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

Let go,” he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. “No, not of me,” he said, smiling. “You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the...

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There...

Come on,” I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. “Save the drama for your mama ” I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I’d finally found...

Pam. Listen.”The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.”Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.”Fuck a zombie!’- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not...

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I...

Vampires, bringing America together!

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric’s nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric’s eyes closed in...

We want to climb in with you,’ Dermot said. ‘We’ll all sleep better.’That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me – or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to...

I stroked Eric’s hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. “I wish,” I said, “I could save orgasms in a...

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? ~Eric Northman

I’m supposed to be a christian, but most days I don’t feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can’t...

Bring it on, fur-ass!

(Sookie’s Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.

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...

The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this.” Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and...

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill’s hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?”- Eric, club dead.

You won’t find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta

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...