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01c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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02c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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03c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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04c. 1951 AD

You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta

Charlaine Harris / quote

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05c. 1951 AD

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)

Charlaine Harris / quote

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06c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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07c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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08c. 1951 AD

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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09c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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10c. 1951 AD

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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11c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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12c. 1951 AD

No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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13c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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14c. 1951 AD

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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15c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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16c. 1951 AD

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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17c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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18c. 1951 AD

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

Charlaine Harris / quote

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19c. 1951 AD

Bring it on, fur-ass!

Charlaine Harris / quote

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20c. 1951 AD

You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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21c. 1951 AD

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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22c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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23c. 1951 AD

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.

Charlaine Harris / quote

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