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Dangerous Creatures for two hundred, anyone? *
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Charlaine Harris |
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same hotel.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Was that justice?" she said. She sounded as though she honestly wanted to know."
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Charlaine Harris |
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suck failure, fur face!
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Charlaine Harris |
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Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.
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Charlaine Harris |
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The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.
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Charlaine Harris |
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The fae were gone from America. Their departure point? Bon Temps, Louisiana. The woods behind my house.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,
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Charlaine Harris |
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So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test."
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Charlaine Harris |
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Lillian is one of those disagreeable people who yet have some redeeming qualities, so that you can't write them off entirely--but you sure wish you could.
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Charlaine Harris |
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I could imagine my grandmother's opinion about Holly's white wedding dress, since Holly had a little boy in school--but hey, whatever made the bride happy. White used to symbolize the virgin purity of the wearer. Now it just meant the bride had acquired an expensive and unusable dress to hang in her closet after the big day.
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Charlaine Harris |
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However, Arlene's arrival had kind of wiped out my options. I
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Charlaine Harris |
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Earth is the home of the living, not the dead.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys.
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Charlaine Harris |
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If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway.
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Charlaine Harris |
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
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Charlaine Harris |
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think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam,
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Charlaine Harris |
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self-pity was a drug. I must not become addicted. Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
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Charlaine Harris |
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He didn't stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into oblivion. And that was the way things should be, as far as I was concerned. Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
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Charlaine Harris |
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I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom.
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Charlaine Harris |
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I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. You would have thought that since they lived together twenty-four hours a day they would've said all they could think of to say, but I could hear one offer the other a comment every now and then. This calm, intermittent dialogue seemed companionable, and I went into kind of a trance sitting on the end of that bed.
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Charlaine Harris |
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We'd walked over to my car while Torrance talked, and I'd pulled out my keys. Now I stopped with my fingers on the car door handle. "Dug up the backyard?" I echoed incredulously. Come to think of it, that wasn't so surprising. I thought about it for a moment. Okay, something that could be kept in a hole in the ground as well as hidden in a house."
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Charlaine Harris |
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Now! I told myself briskly, to ward off the melancholy, as I dumped my cup and wrapper in the trash bin and left the restaurant. Now to work, then home, then out on a real date, and tomorrow get out early in the morning to find those boxes! I should have remembered that my plans seldom work out.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Aubrey was in mufti, which definitely helped me to relax. He was disconcertingly attractive in his jeans and shirt; I had some definitely secular thoughts.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Incontrovertible truth.
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Charlaine Harris |
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She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk's revealing their physical intimacy.
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Charlaine Harris |
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I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn't imagine a future without him. But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I b..
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Charlaine Harris |
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was electrified. I had never really thought the queen could have truly loved Hadley, but I saw now that she had, as much as she was able. We watched Hadley glance at the television from time to time while she painted her toenails, drank a phantom glass of blood, and made a phone call. We couldn't hear her. We could only see, and that within a limited range. The object she reached for would appear the minute her hand touched it, but not befo..
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Charlaine Harris |
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A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.
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Charlaine Harris |
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A vagrant thought crossed my mind.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortable. "I'm glad to see you," Carey was saying warmly while I was decoding her identity."
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Charlaine Harris |
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He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture.
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Charlaine Harris |
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He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past,
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Charlaine Harris |
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I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude."
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Charlaine Harris |
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My God, child, you look like something the cat dragged in!" Eileen bellowed. She was a suspiciously dark-haired woman about forty-five, with expensive clothes from the very best big women's store. Her makeup was heavy but well done, her perfume was intrusive but attractive, and she was one of the most overwhelming women I'd ever met. Eileen was something of a town character in Lawrenceton, and she could talk you into buying a house quicker ..
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Charlaine Harris |
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Nothing could stop tragedy from visiting your home. The angel of death would not pass over, leaving you unscathed, no matter how large your house was.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Nothing had been poured out of its container or wantonly vandalized, but the contents had been moved as though the cabinet itself were the object of the search, not possible loot that could be taken away.
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Charlaine Harris |
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This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it--sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick.
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Charlaine Harris |
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How could two people in love so misjudge each other?
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Charlaine Harris |
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Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home.
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Charlaine Harris |
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Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek before he turned to walk back to the car, but he couldn't recall what it was a minute later. He had to sit in the car for a while before he left to run his errands. He pulled out his list of errands from his pocket and pretended to be studying..
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Charlaine Harris |