Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.
Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.
I had two cups of coffee, put Eric’s jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was ‘exsanguinate.’ This was probably not a good omen.
What had set the fae world off? I’d never seen one. Now you couldn’t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.
I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
It’s a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds.
No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.
But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone’s assets, no matter how much on display they were.
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.
When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.
Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.
Okay I’ve been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I’ve made mistakes. You bet, I’ve made mistakes.
Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.
I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
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.
He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. “You are beautiful”. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
Following Simon’s adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it’s well worth the wear and tear.