Charlaine Harris
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.Collection: Vampire
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.Collection: Book
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.Collection: Grateful
He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth.Collection: Mouths
Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?Collection: Trying
(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.Collection: Stupid
No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.Collection: Suffering
My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror. "It's me," said a familiar voice. ..."Eric, what are you doing here?" "Snuggling.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Sleep
I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumpedCollection: Amelia
This must be the legendary Yankee rudenessCollection: Yankees
Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.Collection: Thinking About You
You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.Collection: Clever
Wow," I said, since it was all I could think of to say. "Wow. That's some outfit." When you've got a big guy wearing Lycra it doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I resisted the temptation to ask Eric to turn around. "I don't believe I could be convincing as a queen," Eric said, "but I decided this sent such a mixed signal, almost anything was possible." He fluttered his eyelashes at me. Eric was definitely enjoying this. "Oh, yes," I said, trying to find somewhere else to look. (Living Dead in Dallas)Collection: Queens
...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you." "Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too.Collection: Hate
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.Collection: Reflection
As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.Collection: Simple
I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.Collection: Car
I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.Collection: Feelings
You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.Collection: Crazy
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.Collection: Daydreaming
"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.Collection: Hands
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?Collection: Thoughtful
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.Collection: Dirty
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.Collection: Sky
The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.Collection: Animal
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.Collection: Girlfriend
You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.Collection: Romance
I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.Collection: Adventure
A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.Collection: Taken
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.Collection: Running
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.Collection: College
My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.Collection: Truth
Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.Collection: Men
I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.Collection: Thinking
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.Collection: Book
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.Collection: Boredom
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.Collection: Wall
And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and GoneCollection: Eric
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.Collection: Tired
He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.Collection: Way
Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the poolCollection: Feelings
Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.Collection: Eye
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 NorthmanCollection: Want
And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?Collection: Might
You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Thinking
Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.Collection: Long
They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.Collection: Cute