I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

I am self-educated from genre books.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.