I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

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.

People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

This Game is not over, it is just beginning.