It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.

Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.