"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

"You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!"
— Charlaine Harris

"If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

""By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
"I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."
I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.
"Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."
"That's more like it.""
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!"
— Charlaine Harris

"Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I'd finally found something Eric did poorly."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

""Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
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."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

"I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
That was a tough exit line to top."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised.
"Yes."
"That's . . . crazy, Sookie."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.

"Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you."
"Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky.
"Yes," he said."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.
"That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
"Did the psychic think so?"
— Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark)

""Sookie, my little bullet-sucker"
"Eric, my big bullshitter""
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

""Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?"
"One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell."
— Charlaine Harris (All Together Dead)

"The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin."
— Charlaine Harris

"Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

"Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T-bone just out of reach of a hungry dog.
"Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood.
With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. "When you smell like that," he said, "I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you."
— Charlaine Harris

"...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you."
"Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Eric: "Some might think you suicidal."

Sookie: "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.""
— Charlaine Harris (All Together Dead)

"As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said.
"Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"
"No, I'm just opportunistic."
I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.""
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

""Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away."
It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide.
"Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark)

"Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.""
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

""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."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)

"I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

"The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share."
— Charlaine Harris

"“Darling, you can nail my ass anytime,” he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table."
— Charlaine Harris

"My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead Over Heels)

"Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)

"I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others."
— Charlaine Harris (Shakespeare's Landlord)

"There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark)

"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."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is."
— Charlaine Harris

"It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too."
— Charlaine Harris

""I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
"I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
"That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.""
— Charlaine Harris

"When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)

"Sometimes the bitch wins."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"""I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others."
"
— Charlaine Harris

"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

"Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I thought, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.""
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)