Eileen Wilks Quotes

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

But not all scars showed, did they?

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing, ....

The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.