Eileen Wilks Quotes

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

  Eileen Wilks

  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.

  Eileen Wilks

  Two, Joining, World

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

  Eileen Wilks

  Men, Attention, Complicated

  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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  Dog, Cat, Numbers

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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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.

  Eileen Wilks

  Night, Skins, Would Be

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.89, 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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• What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

  Eileen Wilks

  Cat, Dinner

  Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.50, 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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• 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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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  Eileen Wilks

  Fear, Needs, Jam

  Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, 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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• 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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• Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

  Eileen Wilks

  Bleeding, Optional

  Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.24, 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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• You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

  Eileen Wilks

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

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

  Eileen Wilks

  Feelings, Certainty

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

  Eileen Wilks

  Hurt, Be Careful, Careful

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

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