“Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.”

“Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ...”

“It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds”

“Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.”

“It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.”

“I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people.Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.”

“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 something Eric did poorly.”