If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

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.

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

A Resilient Person do not need of good fortune.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

I never said I was consistent.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.