If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.

Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?

He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. "You are beautiful". No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy.

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