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)

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.