Southern Vampire Mysteries' Quotes

Mar 20

“After I’d looked at it for a long minute, I said to Jason. ‘I don’t want to talk to you again. Ever.’ I faced Crystal. ‘I hope you enjoyed it, bitch,’ I said, and I turned as quick as I could and brought the brick down on Calvin’s hand.” Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Mar 14

“‘…I wish I could cut Eric out of my life. But I can’t.’
‘Unless he gets staked,’ Quinn said.
I felt a pang in my heart that almost had me clapping a hand to my chest.
‘You don’t want that to happen.’ Quinn’s mouth was compressed in a hard line.
‘No, of course not!’
‘You care about him.’
Oh, crap.” Sookie Stackhouse and John Quinn - “All Together Dead”

Mar 5

“‘Bill?’ I called. ‘Are you okay?’
Just then he sauntered back in the yard looking positively rosy.
‘Bill,’ I said, feeling old and grim and gray. A dull horror, that really was just a deep disappointment, filled the pit of my stomach.
He stopped in his tracks.
‘They fired at us and killed some of us,’ he said. His fangs gleamed, and he was shiny with excitement.
‘You just killed somebody.’
‘To defend us.’
‘To get vengeance.’
There was a clear difference between the two, in my mind, at that moment. He seemed nonplussed.
‘You didn’t even wait to see if I was okay,’ I said. Once a vampire, always a vampire. Tigers can’t change their stripes. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I heard every warning anyone had ever fed me, in the warm drawl of home.” Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton - “Living Dead in Dallas”

Mar 1

“Calvin stepped forward and took my hand. He leaned over to talk very close to my ear. ‘Darlin’,’ he said, ‘you have to do this. I accepted this, when I stood up for her when she was married. And I knew what she was. And you know Jason. This might easily have been the other way ‘round. I might be about to do this to you. And you don’t heal as well. This is better. And it has to be. Our people require this.’ He straightened and looked me right in the eyes. His own were golden, utterly strange, and quite steady.” Calvin Norris and Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Feb 28

“I reached Hotshot well before seven. I’d last been out here at Jason and Crystal’s wedding, where I’d danced with Quinn. That visit of Quinn’s had been the only time he and I had been intimate. In hindsight, I regretted having taken that step. It had been a mistake. I’d been banking on a future that never came to pass. I’d jumped the gun. I hoped I’d never make that mistake again.” Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Feb 27

“‘What are you doing?’ Eric asked, and he wasn’t being facetious. He was glacial with disapproval.
‘Dancing, why?’ I gave a wave to signal Eric to scoot. But Barry had stopped, already, and given me a little goodbye wave.
‘I was having a good time,’ I protested.
‘You were twitching your assets in front of every male in the room,’ he said. ‘Like a…’
‘You hold up, buddy! You stop right there!’ I held up a finger, warning him.
‘Take your finger out of my face,’ he said.” Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse - “All Together Dead”

Feb 24

“‘No,’ he said finally. ‘I was not her first. And I always knew it was the vampire in me that attracted her, not the person who was a vampire.’
‘I understood what he was saying. When I’d learned he’d been ordered to ingratiate himself with me, I’d felt it was the telepath in me that had gotten his attention, not the woman who was the telepath. ‘What goes around, comes around,’ I said.
‘I never cared about her,’ he said. ‘Or very little.’ He shrugged. ‘There’ve been so many like her.’
‘I’m not sure how you think this is going to make me feel.’
‘I’m only telling you the truth. There has been only one you.’ And then he got up and walked back into the woods, human slow, letting me watch him leave.” Bill Compton and Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Nov 6

“For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. ‘Eric,’ I said, ‘we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you’d ever had’ (At the time he couldn’t recall all the sex he’d ever had. But he’d paid me a compliment.) ‘Too bad you can’t remember it,’ I concluded with a modest smile.

Eric looked like I’d hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying. Then I began to be uneasy.” Sookie Stackhouse - “Dead as a Doornail”

Oct 9

“I thought about it for twenty seconds. ‘I don’t think I could do a nude picture,’ I said with some regret. ‘They always seem to show up to bite you in the ass.’

Eric laughed again, low and husky. ‘You talk a lot about that,’ he said. ‘Shall I bite you in the ass?’ This led to a lot of other things, wonderful and playful things.” Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman - “Dead and Gone”

Oct 1

“Bill said, ‘She is mine.’

I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture.

Eric laughed, and Bill said, ‘Sookie!’ in shocked admonishment.” Bill Compton, Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman - “Club Dead”