I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

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