No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.

Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

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