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d158ec1
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I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.
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Charlaine Harris |
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2a5be1c
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I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
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vampire
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Charlaine Harris |
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75f5ff1
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you have to play it out sometimes.
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Charlaine Harris |
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6237972
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Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling."
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Charlaine Harris |
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75e327e
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There was nothing civilized about sex with Eric.
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Charlaine Harris |
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c4f8331
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all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.
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Charlaine Harris |
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5070870
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There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger."
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Charlaine Harris |
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46af823
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If this were the fifties, she'd be checking Sam's collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)
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Charlaine Harris |
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18db5b8
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Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
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Charlaine Harris |
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573ee56
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Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them."
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club-dead
eric-northman
sookie-stackhouse
vampires
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Charlaine Harris |
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1cfa05d
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Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?' [Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penny, in for a pound. 'And... do you think you could pretend to be gay?
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Charlaine Harris |
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21af22c
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No matter what happens in public--no matter what--don't doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.
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Charlaine Harris |
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080630c
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May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons."
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sophie-a
vampires
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Charlaine Harris |
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12fbd58
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Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American."
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Charlaine Harris |
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7a458a0
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I was so sleepy (and sore) that another bout of sex was out of the question, unless Eric had suddenly developed an interest in necrophilia.
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Charlaine Harris |
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b889956
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In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.
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relationships
deeds
debts
society
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Charlaine Harris |
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56954a5
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You, on the other hand, are a sweet little eclair on the outside and a pit bull on the inside.
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Charlaine Harris |
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1ce5e49
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I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
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life-and-living
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Charlaine Harris |
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24fdd54
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I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself."
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Charlaine Harris |
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6d33a58
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It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind
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Charlaine Harris |
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a51cea7
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Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
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Charlaine Harris |
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ec2c153
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I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it."
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Charlaine Harris |
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d38b219
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Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.
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coconut-oil
lectures
sunbathing
tanning
sookie-stackhouse
vice
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Charlaine Harris |
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ced7434
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Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood. With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. "When you smell like that," he said. "I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you." -Eric drunk on Fairies."
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Charlaine Harris |
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e23dc07
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Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
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sympathy
ettiquette
manners
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Charlaine Harris |
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82aea22
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We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.
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Charlaine Harris |
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91cf118
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What are you, Zen Master Fang?
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sookie
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Charlaine Harris |
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20550d9
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I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has shared her bed.
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humor
upset
eric-northman
sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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fbf5525
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He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...
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Charlaine Harris |
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72ed004
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Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria."
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sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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a27c7e3
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I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.
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Charlaine Harris |
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3d62607
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I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left."
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Charlaine Harris |
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568d294
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I'm a Waitress.
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sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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d3631b3
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Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead."
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romantic
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Charlaine Harris |
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2d6d403
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Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.
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humor
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Charlaine Harris |
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05a2d38
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Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.
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Charlaine Harris |
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eeaa7a3
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I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.
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library
humor
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Charlaine Harris |
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7f6adf0
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It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.
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Charlaine Harris |
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c198fb4
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I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?" -Sookie Stackhouse"
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Charlaine Harris |
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05293e7
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It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club
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Charlaine Harris |
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e994df1
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Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you." Eric: Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said. "Hey this isn't any of my doing," I said, which wasn't entirely true. But it was a good exit line, and I took advantage of it to leave the bar."
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sookie-stackhouse
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Charlaine Harris |
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a0b865f
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The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are at..
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Charlaine Harris |
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2889fda
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Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you." Eric: "Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said."
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Charlaine Harris |
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fcaf692
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I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy."
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russell
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Charlaine Harris |