#north

You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #sookie-stackhouse

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy? ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #svm #true-blood #sookie-stackhouse

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#eric-northman #sookie-stackhouse

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #sookie-stackhouse

No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #sookie-stackhouse

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right? ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #sookie-stackhouse

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #thornton #love

[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." [Sookie:] "Like a fungus? ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#humor #sookie-eric #sookie-stackhouse #humor

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#funny #sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #design

The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean cities, the destruction of dams and the resulting devastation of the food supply and an unremitting aerial bombardment more intensive than anything experienced during the Second World War. At one point the Americans gave up bombing targets in the North when their intelligence reported that there were no more buildings over one story high left standing in the entire country … the overall death toll was staggering: possibly as many as four million people. About three million were civilians (one out of every ten Koreans). Even to a world that had just begun to recover from the vast devastation of the Second World War, Korea was a man-made hell with a place among the most violent excesses of the 20th century. ↗

— Reg Whitaker

#korean-war #north-korea #death