Eileen Wilks Quotes:

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

Topics: Love You, Thinking, Cases

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.12, Penguin

Topics: Want, Feels

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.213, Penguin

Topics: Men, Space, Scare, Small Spaces

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.28, Penguin

Topics: Heart, World

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.

Topics: Night, Skins, Would Be

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Topics: Deceiving

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

Topics: Cat, Dinner

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.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.225, Penguin

Topics: Gun, Thinking, Broken

But not all scars showed, did they?

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.53, Penguin

Topics: Scar

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin

Topics: Rain, Ocean, Spots

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.24, Penguin

Topics: Hate, Weather, Inevitable

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.283, Penguin

Topics: Life And Death, Doe, Life Death, Either Or

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.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin

Topics: Grief, Ocean, Simple, Chance And Change

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2008). “Night Season”, p.16, Penguin

Topics: Turtles, Play, Long

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.15, Penguin

Topics: People, Blame, Wanted Someone

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.24, Penguin

Topics: Bleeding

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.58, Penguin

Topics: Folks

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

Topics: Peculiar, Violent, Turns

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.72, Penguin

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

Topics: Feelings, Certainty

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin

Topics: Regret, Guilt, Too Late

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2009). “Mortal Sins”, p.141, Penguin

Topics: Hurt, Be Careful, Careful

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.68, Penguin

Topics: Feelings, Guilt

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?

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.172, Penguin

Topics: Hurt, Feelings, Let It Go

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.

Topics: Wise, Fun, Real

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.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.287, Penguin

Topics: Two, Joining, World

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.113, Penguin

Topics: Want

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.

source: - Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.115, Penguin

Topics: Two, Guy, Bird, Two Birds

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.60, Penguin

Topics: Men, Attention, Complicated

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

source: - Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin

Topics: Fear, Needs, Jam, Traffic Jam