Life begins at night

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

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

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 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)

By the way, I haven’t heard an ‘I’m sorry’ from you yet.” My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.I am sorry that the maenad picked on you.”I glared at him. “Not enough,”...

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,...

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

It’s hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

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,”...

Did we have sex?” he asked directly.For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. “Eric,” I said, “we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in...

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

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...

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.

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as...

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...

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.

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 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...

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

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...

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...

May I search it?” she asked. “We screen for weapons.”I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. “Of course not. I have no weapons.

Hey, our hair’s the same color,” I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.”Sure is, girlfriend.” Eric grinned at me.

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

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.

Okay,” I said. “I’d hoped to avoid this, but… Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house.” Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in...

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...

How grateful are you?” he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine.”That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that,” I...

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.

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...

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as...

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

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