Charlaine Harris

“Sometimes the bitch wins.”

“As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.”

“I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped”

“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 slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.”

“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 I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care."Woman?""Hmmm?""What's your name?""Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse.""Thank you, Sookie.""Welcome, Eric.”

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

“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.”

“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 argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.And I slept.”

“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.”

“Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice.'Pam. Listen.''The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.''Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.''Fuck a zombie!”

“Sookie: Is Eric around?"Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin,”

“You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.”

“With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. “When you smell like that,” hesaid, “I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you.”

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

“I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.”

“They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.”

“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 said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.”

“They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us."My Sookie hid a corpse?""I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun.""Where did you learn that term, Northman?""I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.”

“Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.”-- Manfred”

“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 affair with her husband.”

“Manfred,” I began, exasperated, “I just don’t know what to do with you.”“I have some very good ideas,” he said. He waggled his eyebrows.He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet.”

“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”

“Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color.Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend.”

“Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.”

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

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

“God bless the American spectator. ”

“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”

“Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.”

“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”

“He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.”

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

“I am self-educated from genre books.”

“what are you?" he asked. "I'm a waitress.”

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

“You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have dividedup America into kingdoms, is that right?”

“Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.”

“What's the nature of your emergency?'oh, shit! Just come! There are dead people out here!”

“Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, 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 opportunistic."I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.”

“The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.”

“I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.”

“I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.”

“If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.”

“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," I said. "I hope I can manage it.”

“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.”

“Sookie, my little bullet-sucker"Eric, my big bullshitter”

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

“That would do the trick," he said hoarsely. "Jesus, Harper, I don't understand why we don't have guys following us from town to town just to watch you do that." "Because I've never done it for anyone but you," I said. "You don't think I'd say something like that to anyone else, do you?""Please," he said. "Please do that for me. And no one else.”

“No blame, no hate - why no communication?”