Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

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.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.