Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.