There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
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.
The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.
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.
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.