{"author":"Charlaine Harris","author_id":"Charlaine+Harris","total_quotes":93,"quotes":[{"text":"I have a big hole in my heart,' I said. 'But it'll close over.'I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil,' she said. 'But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?'That's good advice,' I said. 'I hope I can manage it.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["amelia","bill compton","heartbreak","sookie stackhouse","vampires"],"id":2805,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet.' My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.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.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["maenad","romance","sookie-stackhouse","vampire"],"id":3200,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["life-and-living"],"id":6565,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"Come on,' I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["eric-northman","funny","sookie-stackhouse","true-blood"],"id":9801,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["love","regret"],"id":29826,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["eric-northman","lust","sookie-stackhouse"],"id":31324,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.'That's interesting,' he said. 'I had a psychic once. It was incredible.'Did the psychic think so?","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["funny","sookie-eric"],"id":43197,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["desire"],"id":52598,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["humor","vampire"],"id":56418,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"},{"text":"Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.","author":"Charlaine Harris","tags":["eric-northman","funny","sookie-stackhouse","true-blood"],"id":56526,"author_id":"Charlaine+Harris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":93,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}