Eileen Wilks quotes
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“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.”
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“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.12, Penguin
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“Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.213, Penguin
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“He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.28, Penguin
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“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.60, Penguin
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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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“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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“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”
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“What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.”
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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.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.225, Penguin
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“But not all scars showed, did they?”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.53, Penguin
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“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
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“Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin
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“Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.24, Penguin
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“Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.283, Penguin
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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.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin
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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.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2008). “Night Season”, p.16, Penguin
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“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.15, Penguin
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“Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.24, Penguin
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“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.58, Penguin
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“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
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“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.72, Penguin
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“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
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“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin
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“I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2009). “Mortal Sins”, p.141, Penguin
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“Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.68, Penguin
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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?”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.172, Penguin
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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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“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 WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.287, Penguin
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“Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.113, Penguin
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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.”
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.115, Penguin
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