"I am self - educated from genre books."

"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 jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra.' Eric's eyes widened, and all of a sudden he roared with laughter. (Dead to the World)"

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

"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 will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be."

"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 said, trying to keep my voice gentle. 'You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you.'I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it, ' he said, equally gently."

"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."

"My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it."

"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."

"If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down - or cheeks up."

"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."

"Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same."

"I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian"

"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 was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why.It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone."

"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."

"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 his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly.'Eric, ' I said, and his smile faded. 'I rescind your invitation into my house.' And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them."

"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."

"Bring it on, fur - ass!"

"Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on."

"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."

"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 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. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all."

"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 of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel."

"Vampires, bringing America together!"

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

"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, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm.It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood and tortoiseshell buttons."

"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."

"Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive."

"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 sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died."

"But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home.I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here."

"I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on."

"My bullshit metre is reading that as false'."

"There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged."

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

"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 though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough."

"You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta"

"And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that."

"If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else."

"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."

"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 the carbohydrate count. 'But I'm an emotional eater, ' she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. 'And I was real emotional in jail."

"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 it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam."

"I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self - help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now."

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

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

"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."

"JB's mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women."

"Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated."

"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 and cuddling part."

"I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam"

"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 the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen."

"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."