Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

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.

To receive love is good, but to be loved unconditionally, I don’t know what’s greater than that.

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

I have so very much. I have so very little.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

I've always believed in survival.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.

Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.