This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

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.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.