From Dead to Worse Quotes

“I trudged back to my bedroom and pushed the door open, intending to wash my face or brush my teeth or make some stab at smoothing my hair, because I thought it might make me feel a little less trampled.
Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard.
Sitting here on your bed, smelling your scent,” he said in a voice so low I had to strain to hear it.
Sookie . . . I remember everything.”
Oh, hell,” I said, and went in the bathroom and shut the door. I brushed my hair and my teeth and scrubbed my face, but I had to come out. I was being as cowardly as Quinn if I didn’t face the vampire.
Eric started talking the minute I emerged. “I can’t believe I—”
Yeah, yeah, I know, loved a mere human, made all those promises, was as sweet as pie and wanted to stay with me forever,” I muttered. Surely there was a shortcut we could take through this scene.
I can’t believe I felt something so strongly and was so happy for the first time in hundreds of years,” Eric said with some dignity. “Give me some credit for that, too.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Men are incomprehensible assholes," I said to Amelia.
"NO shit," she said. "When I was searching for Bob today, I found a female cat in the woods with kittens. And guess what? They were all black-and-white.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.”
And then he opened the door.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Bring it on, fur-ass!”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."

"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“No blame, no hate - why no communication?”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“you have to play it out sometimes.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood.

With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. "When you smell like that," he said. "I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you."

-Eric drunk on Fairies.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“But when I heard his voice, I felt content. When I was with him, I felt beautiful and happy. And there was nothing I could do about it.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers "Papaw”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“My brother was an asshole, and Crystal was a whore. These were facts I had to deal with.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Oh, no, not a date,” I said, sounding unconvincing even to myself. “No guy-girl action going on. Just, you know, hanging out.” Kissing. Getting shot.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Everyone was getting married or falling in love. I was happy for them. Happy, happy, happy. I pasted a smile on my face and went to Piggly Wiggly.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“- Deitei-me diante da tua lareira e falei contigo sobre a tua vida. - disse. Não tinha nada a ver com o assunto.
-Humm... Sim. Fizemos isso.
- Recordo o nosso duche juntos.
- Também fizemos isso.
- Fizemos tanta coisa.
- Ah... pois. Está bem.
- Se não tivesse tanta coisa para fazer aqui em Shreveport, sentir-me-ia tentado a visitar-te para te recordar como gostaste de cada uma dessas coisas.
- Se bem me lembro - afirmei -, também gostaste.
- Ó, sim.
- Eric, preciso de desligar. Tenho de ir trabalhar. - Ou de entrar em combustão espontânea. O que acontecesse primeiro.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Thank you,” Eric said. “Dear one—that’s you, Sookie— you so impressed Felipe de Castro that he has given us permission to offer you our formal protection. This is a decision only made by the king, you understand, and it’s a binding contract. You rendered him such service that he felt this was the only way to repay you.” “So, this is a big deal?” “Yes, my lover, it is a very big deal. That means when you call us for help, we are obliged to come and risk our lives for yours. This is not a promise vampires make very often, since we grow more and more jealous of our lives the longer we live. You’d think it would be the other way around.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Thank you,” Eric said. “Dear one—that’s you, Sookie— you so impressed Felipe de Castro that he has given us permission to offer you our formal protection. This is a decision only made by the king, you understand, and it’s a binding contract. You rendered him such service that he felt this was the only way to repay you.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I was worried about Eric. This was a fairly new phenomenon, one that made me very uneasy, and it had started the night of the coup. Worrying about Eric was like worrying about the well-being of a rock or a tornado.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“After that, I went to the grocery store. No Weres attacked, no vampires rose. No one tried to kill me or anyone I knew. No secret relatives revealed themselves, and not a soul tried to involve me in his or her problems, marital or otherwise. I was practically reeking with normality by the time I got home.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“I can’t believe I felt something so strongly and was so happy for the first time in hundreds of years,” Eric said with some dignity. “Give me some credit for that, too.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard. “Sitting here on your bed, smelling your scent,” he said in a voice so low I had to strain to hear it. “Sookie . . . I remember everything.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse