Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they... read more
This book opens with Sookie Stackhouse finding the dead body of her friend Lafayette, in the backseat of Andy Bellefleur's car, who had left his car at Merlotte's the night before. Sookie learns that her friend had recently attended a local sex party. She thinks the members of that group might... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“Yes. Andy's here, and he's three sheets to the wind. I took his keys. Can you come get him?”Sookie Stackhouse
“Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm."Eric, my big bullshitter.”Eric, Sookie
“The last time I wore an animal hide, but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings. I don't know where he got them; I didn't know any company made Lycra leggings in Men's X-tra Large Tall. They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the sides of Jason's truck.”Eric, Sookie
“Naiads are water and dryads are trees, right? So why a maenad, out there in the woods? Weren't maenads just women driven mad by the god Bacchus?" "Sookie, you have unexpected depths," Eric said, after an appreciable pause. I didn't tell him I'd learned that from reading a mystery. Let him think I read ancient Greek literature in the original language. It couldn't hurt.”Sookie, Eric
“I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. "Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." "That's more like it.”Eric, Sookie
“The sign on the well-tended lawn read THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SUN CENTER — Only Jesus Rose from the Dead. I snorted as I opened my door and emerged from Hugo's car. "That right there is false," I pointed out to my companion. "Lazarus rose from the dead, too. Jerks can't even get their scripture right.”Sookie Stackhouse
“She put me in mind of a hobbit. Maybe she was a hobbit. My understanding of reality had taken several raps to the head in the past few months.”Sookie Stackhouse
“Sam was my boss, and starting something with your boss is always a bad idea. Starting something with your boss when your boyfriend is a vampire is another bad idea...”Sookie Stackhouse
“The gray jacket was on the floor, the white shell was discarded, and my arms were locked around Bill's neck before you could say "Screw a vampire."”Sookie Stackhouse
“I was incredibly tired of being afraid.”Sookie Stackhouse
“Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me.”Highlighted by 174 Kindle customers
“You, on the other hand, are a sweet little éclair on the outside and a pit bull on the inside.”Highlighted by 150 Kindle customers
Maybe there really were fairies at the bottom of the garden, a phrase I remembered from a song my grandmother had sung when she hung out the clothes on the line.Highlighted by 56 Kindle customers
“Naiads are water and dryads are trees, right? So why a maenad, out there in the woods? Weren’t maenads just women driven mad by the god Bacchus?”Highlighted by 52 Kindle customers
maenad.” That was something Greek. I didn’t knowHighlighted by 45 Kindle customers
As I unlocked the front door, Bill came out of the darkness.Highlighted by 40 Kindle customers
ennui, after a long life. These renouncers planned to “meet the sun,” the vampire term for committing suicide by staying out past daybreak.Highlighted by 34 Kindle customers
élan—and the recklessness of someone extremely hard to kill.Highlighted by 22 Kindle customers
Thermopylae. This was just a spot in the vegetation by a road in northern Louisiana. I was probably lying in poison ivy. I would probably not live long enough to break out, though.Highlighted by 11 Kindle customers
She idly waved the long wand with the tuft on the end. It was called a thyrsis;Highlighted by 8 Kindle customers
Chapters 1 - 11
Preceded by Dead Until Dark, and followed by Club Dead.
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