Eileen Wilks Quotes
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We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
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Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
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Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
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Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
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Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
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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.
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Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
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Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
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What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
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You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
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I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
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Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
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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?
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This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
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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.
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Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
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Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.
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People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
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He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
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But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.