Charlaine Harris

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”

“The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.”

“America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.”

“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.”

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

“I like sparkly things.”

“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.”

“A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.”

“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," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."That's more like it.”

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

“I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.”

“Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.”

“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.”

“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 other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

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

“Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.”

“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.”

“I like the cerebral process.”

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

“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.”