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01Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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02Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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03Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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04Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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05Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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06Undated

(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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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07Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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08Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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09Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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10Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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11Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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12Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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13Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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14Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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15Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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16Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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17Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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18Undated

I am self-educated from genre books.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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19Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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20Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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21Undated

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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22Undated

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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23Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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24Undated

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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