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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Love You, Thinking, Cases

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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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Grief, Ocean, Simple

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

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But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

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Deceiving

Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.117, Penguin

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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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Regret, Guilt, Too Late

Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, 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.

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Two, Guy, Bird

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

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

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People, Blame, Wanted Someone

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

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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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Two, Joining, World

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

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

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Men, Space, Scare

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

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Heart, World, One Woman

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.

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Men, Attention, Complicated

Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.60, 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.

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Turtles, Play, Long

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

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

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Want

Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.113, 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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Wise, Fun, Real

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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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Hurt, Feelings, Let It Go

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

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

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Want, Feels

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

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Religion turned some folks belligerent.

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Folks

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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Peculiar, Violent, Turns

Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.59, Penguin

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Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

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Feelings, Guilt

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

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

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

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

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Life And Death, Doe, Life Death

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

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

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Hate, Weather, Inevitable

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

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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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Rain, Ocean, Spots

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

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

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Fear, Needs, Jam

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

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But not all scars showed, did they?

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Scar

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

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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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Gun, Thinking, Broken

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

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