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.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

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.

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

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

Not all bits have equal value.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.