I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

No, I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose

It’s the ability to love anyone and anything that’s the most powerful force in the universe.

The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.