Eileen Wilks Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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