reasons from the show:
01. Because there was a spark
02. Because she noticed him right away
03. Because he scanned her twice
04. Because he thought she was sweet
05. Because he sits her right next to him like a king would his queen
06. Because he found it a pity that she was taken
07. Because he licked his lips when he looked at Sookie
08. Because he knows she will come again
09. Because he actually agreed to her demands
10. Because he kept smiling at her and she kept staring back at him
11. Because she agreed to help him anytime he wants
12. Because she's doing a favour for him on her own free will
13. Because major eye contact was happening between them in episode 8
14. Because he offered to take Sookie
15. Because he stared back at her while he was leaving
16. Because he obviously doesn't like to see her kiss Bill
17. Because he keeps interrupting B/S
18. Because he agree to Bill demand to see Sookie
19. Because he believed in her gift enough to call for another employee.
20. Because even as a human he thinks she is valuable
21. Because he obviously wants her to ask for her again
22. Because if he want her, he can simply take her
23. Because what Sookie finds meaningful, he finds... curious.
24. Because he offered his life to save her.


reasons from the books:
01. Because there is a connection right from the start
02. Because Eric sent Sookie flowers and came by,
intending to visit her, when she was in the hospital.
03. Because she'd suck a bullet from him
04. Because Eric had Sookie's driveway re-gravelled
05. Because Sookie let him sleep in her bed.
06. Because even with Amnesia, he is still drawn to her.
07. Because when the witches cursed Eric
and stripped him of everything, including his memories and clothes,
he instinctively headed to Sookie's house
08. Because he wanted to give up everything and stay with Sookie
09. Because he took a bullet for her
10. Because he notices the only new thing about Sookie
12. Because she warned Quinn by phone,
but rescued Eric in person from the Fellowship bombing.
13. Because he bought her a new cell phone (red, of course).
14. Because Eric bought her a new front door
15. Because they are blood bound now
16. Because her shower with Eric is the best one she's ever had!
17. Because beyond the blood bond they care about each other
18. Because Eric is Mr. January on the Vampire Hunk calender
and Sookie never turned the page to February
19. Because he's always around when Sookie needs him.
20. Because he gets her.
21. Because he gives her what she really needs in a way she can accept.
22. Because he wore pink tights for her
23. Because the first time Sookie relinguishes her will to another, it is to Eric.
24. Because he made Bill tell the truth to Sookie
25. Because Sookie kept the bullet she sucked from his chest as a memento.
26. Because they have a "big lust" for each other
27. Because she's not afraid of him, even if she should be.
28. Because 2 words: Shower scene
29. Because he was so happy for the first time in hundreds of years with her.
30. Because Sookie is happier when she's with him.
31. Because he introduced her to her grandfather.
32. Because he keeps taking bullets for her.
33. Because "Eric lives on in Sookie".

quotes
from the show:

Sookie: Who’s that?
Bill: Oh, you noticed him, did you?
Sookie: No, it’s not like that, I just…
Bill: Everyone does. That's Eric.

Sookie: It's nice to meet you.
Eric: Well, aren't you sweet.
Sookie: Not really.

Eric: So, Bill. Are you quite attached to your friend?
Bill: She is mine
Sookie: Yes, I am his
Eric: Hmm, What a pity. For me.

Eric: I enjoyed meeting you, Ms. Stackhouse. You will come again.

Eric: Honestly...did you think you could keep her to yourself?

Sookie: I'll make you a deal...if you promise to hand over the person
who did this to the police. I'll agree to help you anytime you want
Eric: All right...why not.

Eric: I'll take the girl
Bill: No...You can have anyone you want, why her?

Eric: Majester.....she is valuable

Eric: Unless you want to give me Sookie...it's just a suggestion.

Eric: You surprise me. That's rare in a breather.
Sookie: You disgust me.
Eric: Perhaps I'll grow on you.
Sookie: I'd prefer cancer

Sookie: After what you've done to him, you should be ashamed of yourself. (Slaps Eric across the face.)
Eric: I'm glad to see you feeling better and may I say that color suits you very well.
Sookie: Go to hell.

Eric: You obviously mean something to Sookie. And what Sookie finds meaningful, I find curious.

quotes
from the books:

Sookie: By the way, I haven’t heard an ‘I’m sorry’ from you yet.
Eric: I am sorry that the maenad picked on you
Sookie: Not enough
Eric: Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty,
I am prostrate that the wicked maenad violated
your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt
to deliver a message to me.
Sookie: That’s more like it
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: I’ll bet you are a treat, naked
Sookie: You know it. I’m just as tasty as a big éclair
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: Besides, I’m hoping that
the more you see me, the more I’ll grow on you.
Sookie: Like a fungus?
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: I knew I’d get on top of you somehow
Sookie: Are you trying to make me mad
so I’ll forget how scared I am?
Eric: No, I’m just opportunistic.
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Sookie: It's hard not to respond when a master
of the art of kissing is laying one on you.
~Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: Sookie, my little bullet-sucker
Sookie: Eric, my big bull****ter
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: And this is the only reason we’re going?
You’re not clearly using this as an excuse to make out with me?
Sookie: I’m not that clever, Eric
Eric: I think you deceive yourself, Sookie.
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: You trust me?
Sookie: Yes
Eric: That’s... crazy, Sookie.
Sookie: I don’t think so.
~ Living Dead in Dallas

Eric: When we kiss... t’s very exciting.
~ Club Dead

Sookie: Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink," I said,
and Eric laughed out loud. That was why I liked him, I thought
rosily; he "got" me.
~Club Dead

Eric: I don’t like having feelings.
~ Club Dead

Eric: You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
~ Club Dead

Sookie: Who did your hair?
Eric: Oooh, jealous?
~ Club Dead

Eric: Let go. No, not of me.
You can hold on to me as long as you want.
Let go of the pain, Sookie.
~ Club Dead

Sookie: If there was an international butt competition,
Eric would win, hands down - or cheeks up. He would get a large,
large trophy. I had never realized that 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.
~Dead to the World

Sookie: This was a different Eric without
the personality that I’d grown fond of, in a perverse
way. but it was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was
hungry for me, in a world that often let me know
it could do well without me.
~ Dead to the world

Sookie "Look at me, lover." The way he said lover
was like a caress, like he was calling me by a name
no other man had ever used before or ever would after.
~ Dead to the world

Eric: If I had known you would be
this gorgeous with your clothes off,
I would have tried to do this sooner.
Sookie: You did try to do this sooner,
about twenty times.
Eric: Then I have good taste.
~ Dead to the world

Eric: You are beautiful. You are smart, and you are loyal.
You have a sense of fun and adventure.
Sookie: Cut it out.
Eric: Make me. You have the most beautiful breasts I’ve ever seen.
You’re brave. You’re responsible and hardworking… There. You’re creative, too.
~ Dead to the world

Eric: You took me in off the road and kept me safe.
You’re ready to fight for me. I can tell this about you.
I can’t believe my luck. When this witch is defeated,
I will bring you to my side. I will share everything I have with you.
Every vampire who owes me fealty will honor you.
Sookie: You’ve made me very happy
~ Dead to the world

Eric: But also because I find I really do...
I find I have feelings for you.
Sookie: Oh, Eric, I almost hate to say this,
but I have feelings for you, too.
Eric: Not love, exactly
Sookie: No, but something close.
~ Dead to the world

Eric: We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always.
We can know each other’s bodies in ever way, night after night.
I could love you. I could work. You would not be poor.
I would help you.
Sookie: Sounds like a marriage.
Eric: Yes
~ Dead to the world

Eric: What would you think of a nude calendar?
‘Fangtasia’s Vampire Hunks’ is what Pam thinks it should be called.
Sookie: Are you gonna be in it?
Eric: Oh, of course. Mr. January.
Sookie: Well, put me down for three.
I’ll give one to Arlene and one to Tara.
And I’ll put one up on my own wall.
Eric: If you promise to keep it open to my picture, I’ll give you one for free.
~ Dead to the world

Eric: I wish that I could read your mind
as you can read the minds of others, I wish
very much that I could know what was going on in your head.
I wish I knew why I cared what’s going on in that head.
~ Dead as a doornail

Eric: Did we have sex?
Sookie: Eric, we had sex in every position
I could imagine, and we had sex outdoors.
You told me it was the best you’d ever had.
Too bad you can’t remember it.
~ Dead as a doornail

Sookie: But I realized I’d thought of Eric
because it was the kind of day you
wanted to share with the person you cared about,
the person whose company you enjoyed the most.
~ Definitely Dead

Eric: Was I supposed to look for the person I hated?
Loved? Could it have been random that I found
myself running out in the middle of nowhere…
except that nowhere was on the way to your house.
Sookie: Probably the fairy blood
Eric: No
~ All together Dead

Sookie: Eric's eyes were glowing as if a candle
burned behind them, and he was so lovely I could
have drowned in him. God help me.
~All Together Dead

Sookie: Did I love you? Maybe. Sort of. But I know
all along that whoever was with me, it wasn’t the real you.
And I knew sooner or later you’d remember who you were
and what you were.
Eric: You don’t seem to have yes or no answers about men.
Sookie: You don’t exactly seem to know how you feel about me, either
~ All together Dead

Sookie: Is this going to fade? It will, right? We won’t always be like this?
Eric: I like being like this. You’ll like it, too.
~ All together Dead

Eric: When you smell like that,
I just want to f*k you and bite you
and rub myself all over you.
~ From Dead to worse

Sookie: If you find yourself considering who to take
for a lover because of his ability to defend you, you’re
getting pretty close to selecting a mate because you think
he has desirable traits to pass along to future generations.
And if there’d been a chance I could have had Eric’s child
(a thought that made me shiver), He would have been
at the top of the list, a list I hadn’t even known I’d been compiling.
~ From Dead to worse

Sookie: The best shower [I'd had] was the one
I'd shared with Eric, and I couldn't even think of that
one without shivering all over.
~From Dead to Worse

Eric: I can’t believe I...
Sookie: Yeah, yeah, I know, loved a mere human,
made all those promises, was as sweet as pie
and wanted to stay with me forever.
Eric: I can’t believe I felt something so strongly
and was so happy for the first time in hundreds of years,
give me some credit for that, too.
~ From Dead to worse

Eric: It would hurt you if I died.
Sookie: Yeah, we’re blood bound, yadda yadda yadda.
Eric: Not because of the bond.
Sookie: Okay, you’re right. It would hurt me if you die
~ From Dead to worse

Sookie: I tried not to think about how it would
please me to lay eyes on Eric. At least ten times in the
past few weeks, I’d caught myself before I’d gotten
in my car to driver over to see him.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: No matter how furious I got with Eric,
I was happier when I was with him.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: I would think of Eric and feel the warm rush of joy,
and then think of Eric and want to punch him in the face.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Just when I think you’re very simple, you say something complex.
Sookie: Are you complaining?
Eric: No
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Tell me the truth, is it possible you came here
simply to spend time with me?
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: He can’t have you now. We are wed.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Do you know why I ended up so close to your home,
running down that road in the freezing cold?
Sookie: No, I don’t
Eric: The curse contained within the witch,
the curse that activated when Clancy killed her…
it was that I would be close to my heart’s desire without realizing it.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: Eric, when I’m back to being myself, I’m going to nail your a**
for putting me in this position of being pledged to you.
Eric: Darling, you can nail my a** anytime
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: At least spending time with Eric is never boring
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: In the picture Eric had given me today,
he was in somewhat the same pose, but he was holding
a hand out to the camera as if He was inviting the viewer
to come join him on the bed. And the white fur wasn’t
covering quite everything. “I wait for the night you join me."
He written on the otherwise blank card in his crabbed handwriting.
Faintly cheesy? Yes. Gulp inducing? Oh, you betcha.
I could practically feel my blood heat up.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: Do you really remember staying with me before?
Do you remember what it felt like?
Eric: Oh, Yes, I remember.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: When he bit my shoulder, I left my body for a minute.
I’d never felt anything so good. I didn’t have enough breath
to scream or even speak.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: I was so shaken I couldn’t have talked if my life had depended on it.
We lay in silence, exhausted. I didn’t mind his weight on me. I felt safe.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Bite me
Sookie: Why? You said you already gave me some.
Eric: Because it makes me feel good. Just... for that.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: The mark on his wrist was gone. I touched where it had been.
He leaned over to kiss the place on my neck where he'd bitten me,
and I shivered all over
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: "Am I happy when I’m with you?" I put my hand against his cheek.
"Yes, I am. Do I think making love with you is the greatest thing ever? Yes, I do.
Do I want to do it again? You bet, though not right now since I’m sleepy. But soon.
And often. Am I having sex with anyone else? No. And I won’t, unless I decide the
bond is all we have."
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: “You love me,” he said, and he nodded.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: I always tell you the truth. I may not tell you everything I know,
but what I tell you... it's true.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: Even if I’m going to die, don’t turn me.
I would hate that more than anything.
Eric: I agree to that. No matter how much I may want to keep you.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Stop that now. You must be strong.
I'm very proud of you, you hear me?
Sookie: Why?
Eric: You are still together; you are still a person.
Lochlan and Neave have left vampires and fairies in rags – literally,
rags….but you survived and your personality and soul are intact.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: I hardly wanted to live after…
Eric: But you did live. And they died. And you are mine,
and you will be mine. They will not get you.
~ From Dead and Gone

Sookie: Where were you? It's not like you were obliged to come find me,
but I hoped the whole time-I hoped you would come, I prayed you would come,
I thought over and over you might hear me...
Eric: You're killing me. You're killing me. I’ll explain, I will. You will understand.
~ From Dead and Gone

Eric: Clancy lives on in Bill.
Pam: As you live on in Sookie.
~ From Dead and Gone