Eileen Wilks famous quotes

07-19-2025

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

#Love You #Thinking #Cases
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
-- Eileen Wilks

#Want #Feels
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Men #Space #Scare
He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
-- Eileen Wilks

#Heart #World
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasnâ€™t paying attention,
-- Eileen Wilks

#Men #Attention #Complicated
Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat thoughâ€”a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If heâ€™s in a good mood.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Dog #Cat #Numbers
This was what she neededâ€¦ 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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Night #Skins #Would Be
But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
-- Eileen Wilks

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

#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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Gun #Thinking #Broken
But not all scars showed, did they?
-- Eileen Wilks

#Scar
Fear and bigotry donâ€™t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Needs #Jam #Traffic
Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Rain #Ocean #Spots
Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Hate #Weather #Inevitable
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Life And Death #Doe #Life Death
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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Grief #Ocean #Simple
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Turtles #Play #Long
People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
-- Eileen Wilks

#People #Blame #Wanted Someone
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Bleeding
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Folks
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Peculiar #Violent #Turns
You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
-- Eileen Wilks
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
-- Eileen Wilks

#Feelings #Certainty
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Regret #Guilt #Too Late
I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Hurt #Be Careful #Careful
Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
-- Eileen Wilks

#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?
-- Eileen Wilks

#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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Two #Joining #World
Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.
-- Eileen Wilks

#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.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Two #Guy #Bird

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