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01Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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02Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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03Undated

Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror."Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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04Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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05Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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06Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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07Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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08Undated

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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09Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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10Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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11Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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12Undated

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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13Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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14Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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15Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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16Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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17Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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18Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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19Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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20Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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21Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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22Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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23Undated

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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24Undated

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?

Charlaine Harris / quote

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