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1 " Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated. "
― Charlaine Harris , Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
2 " It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. "
3 " You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta "
4 " My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world. "
5 " Woo woo, secret vampire stuff! "
6 " Life begins at night "
7 " For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing. "
8 " There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. "
9 " My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation. "
10 " Eric appeared to be counting my eyelashes. I tried to keep my gaze on my hands, to indicate modesty. I felt power tweaks kind of flow over me and had an uneasy feeling Eric was trying to influence me. I risked a quick peek, and sure enough he was looking at me expectantly. Was I supposed to pull off my dress? Bark like a dog? Kick Bill in the shins? Shit. "
11 " His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. "
12 " Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar. "
13 " Sometimes you just have to roll in it. "
14 " Easy to exemplify my true feelings towards him "
15 " Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words. "
16 " I'm a Waitress. "
17 " That is what we are. Death. "
18 " I want to call you all those gooshy words you use when you love someone, no matter how stupid it sounds. "
19 " This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana. "
20 " [..] red high-heeled screw-me shoes. "
