She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.

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.

If not love, then what? If not now, then when?

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.