"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 be poor. I would help you."

"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."

"I had passed, I had become the thing that had happened to me."

"In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could."

"I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others."

"The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while."

"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 ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T - bone just out of reach of a hungry dog. 'Snap out of it, ' I said. I wasn't in the mood.With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. 'When you smell like that, ' he said, 'I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you."

"When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive."

"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."

"No threatening the cat!' Mr. Snuggly said."

"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."

"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."

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

"People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree."

"I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you.' ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family."

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

"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."

"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"

"The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them."

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

"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 every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you'd ever had.' (At the time he couldn't recall all the sex he'd ever had. But he'd paid me a compliment.) 'Too bad you can't remember it, ' I concluded with a modest smile.Eric looked like I'd hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying."

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

"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'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there"

"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 pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away.'It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place."

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

"But there's a juicy artery in your groin, ' he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide.'Don't you talk dirty, ' I told him. 'I won't listen to that."

"(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and - oh - tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair."

"Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied."

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

"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."

"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."

"I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.'That's interesting, ' he said. 'I had a psychic once. It was incredible.'Did the psychic think so?"

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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 get my point?'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.'I thought the top of my head would pop off...(Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)"

"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."

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

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

"A piece of happiness should never be taken as due."

"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."

"My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world."