Top 62 Eileen Wilks Quotes
#1. He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.
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#2. Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone.
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#3. Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.
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#4. Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing, ...
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#5. Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
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#6. 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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#7. We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to.
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#9. He answered with the sudden flash of a grin, so much less seductive than his smile. So much more dangerous. He was real when he grinned.
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#10. 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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#11. Am I supposed to want you this much?
Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.
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#12. Anyone else asks how I'm doing I'll say okay, and that wil be bullshit. It's true, but it'll stil be bullshit.
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#14. He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
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#15. There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry ...
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#16. Jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in
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#17. SAN Diego slid from July into August like a baker slides a fresh sheet of cookies into the oven - quick and smooth, with the new panful of days set to cook up crisp.
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#18. Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
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#19. What? She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
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#20. Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?"
"Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent.
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#21. You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
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#22. Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
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#23. This time he just inhaled, deep and luxurious. The inhale was to fill up on her scent, she knew. The exhale was her name, just that, warm and moist against her skin.
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#24. Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules.
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#26. I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case ... I love you.
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#27. When you're raw you don't want people studying your reactions, even if you've convinced yourself you're just fine. Maybe especially then.
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#28. Uh - do you want to do it outside?
Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.
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#29. UFOs Are Real. The Air Force Doesn't Exist.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. So selfless she was, willing to give up a little sleep for a man who was clearly
determined to make sure it would be no sacrifice. How did a woman give to a man who was so determined to give to her?
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#33. 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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#34. I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.
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#35. She wasn't entertainment for him. He
didn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.
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#36. Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.
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#37. 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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#38. As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.
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#39. The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.
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#40. Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
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#41. His eyes made her think of water at night - full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.
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#42. People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
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#43. 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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#44. That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.
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#45. But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
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#46. Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
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#47. What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?
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#48. Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair.
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#49. When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.
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#50. Do you need me?
Always, but not immediately.
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#51. 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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#52. Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
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#53. Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it?
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#55. We aren't guaranteed the time we think we
need to mend fences with those we love.
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#56. ... the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at them. So high above, speaking in gradual whispers about time, about their own flaming hearts and the endless cold that lies between ...
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#57. Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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#58. Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
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#59. Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention,
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#60. Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.
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#61. 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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#62. How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
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