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And I knew that now, while I lay here awake-listening to the birds chirping their morning sounds and the trucks beginning to rumble down the road while all over Bon Temps people were getting up and putting on the coffee and fetching their papers and planning their day— that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.

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Book title mention heck yeah

…..I forgot there would be some light (and cringe) NSFW stuff in here. Guess where I was when the very first scene came up? 😀🔫

I felt something in me detach and fly up, up into the blue brilliance: and I knew that whatever had happened to my grandmother, now she was at home.

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🥹 gonna cry brb

He seemed comfortable in the night, in a way I never could be. There were too many childhood taboos about the night and the darkness and things that went bump.
Come to think of it, Bill was one of those things. No wonder he felt at ease.

“[…] I can go to the all-night clinic
in any city and get some synthetic blood, though it's disgusting. Or I can pay a whore and get enough blood to keep going for a couple of days. Or I can glamor someone, so they'll let me bite them for love and then forget all about it. And I don't need so much now."
"Or you can meet a girl who gets head injuries" said.
"Oh, you were the dessert. The Rattrays were the meal.”

"Dillard's," he said, and I tried to imagine him at the mall in Monroe, perhaps, other people turning to look at this exotic creature with his glowing skin and beautiful eyes. Where would he get the money to pay with? How did he wash his clothes? Did he go into his coffin naked? Did he have a car or did he just float wherever he wanted to go?
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One of these things is not like the other

"What are you?" he asked me. It was the second time he'd wanted to know.
"I'm a waitress,'" I said, again deliberately misunderstanding him. I could feel my smile snap back into place again. My little bit of peace vanished.
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Sookeh 🧛‍♂️