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21 " Well, screw him. I'd tried my best. "
― Charlaine Harris , Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
22 " (...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark. "
23 " Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don’t have human values, you know.” “A lot of humans turn on those who trust them,” I pointed out. I can be practical. “I’m not a total fool. "
24 " His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune. "
25 " You can get more skilled, Sookie, but can't get any better. "
26 " Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being. "
27 " Every now and then I felt like I was Bill's doll. "
28 " The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck. "
29 " Oh, boy, he could kiss. "
30 " Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology,” said Bill Compton, vampire. "
31 " Suddenly the blood tasted good, salty, the stuff of life. "
32 " Well, if I'm not doing it for him, then I'm doing it for me, so I can feel proud. "
33 " It was a little blue cotton-knit dress with tiny daisies all over it, and it was tighter than Gran liked and shorter than Jason deemed proper in his sister. "
34 " Oh, you were the dessert. The Rattrays were the meal. "
35 " I liked long skirts," he said nostalgically. "I liked the underthings women wore. The petticoats. "
36 " If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not," he said, and I could tell he meant it. "
37 " Mack and Denise had been in jail for vampire draining. Deeply upset, I nevertheless automatically carried a pitcher of beer and some glasses to a raucous table of four. Since vampire blood was supposed to temporarily relieve symptoms of illness and increase sexual potency, kind of like prednisone and Viagra rolled into one, there was a huge black market for genuine, undiluted vampire blood. Where there’s a market there are suppliers; in this case, I’d just learned, the scummy Rat Couple. "
38 " I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely. "
39 " politically correct theory, the one the vamps "
40 " . . . we didn’t have any blankets and "