The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

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.

You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.