Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)

by Charlaine Harris

the decay of poverty gilded by Mother Nature.

When you have to clean the blood out of the kitchen, it’s family you want.

“I was never a Christian,” Eric said. Now, that didn’t surprise me. “But I can’t imagine a belief system that would tell you to sit still and get slaughtered.” I blinked, wondering if that wasn’t exactly what Christianity taught. But I am no theologian or Bible scholar, and I would have to leave the judgment on my action to God, who was also no theologian.