My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

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

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

The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool