Eileen Wilks Quotes & Sayings

Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it? — Eileen Wilks

Do you need me?
Always, but not immediately. — Eileen Wilks

Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it. — Eileen Wilks

But not all scars showed, did they? — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules. — Eileen Wilks

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

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. — Eileen Wilks

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

His eyes made her think of water at night - full of mysteries and hints, revealing little. — Eileen Wilks

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing, ... — Eileen Wilks

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

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks

This ... all this, the room, the people here,the odd little pairs and groups they'd formed, the ways each was finding to connect the others ... this was what she fought for. For these people, yes. And for moments like this, punctuated by coffee or tea, with a baby on one man's shoulder and a saint humming over the fireplace ... everyone gathered together to work toward their common goal. She fought for them, and for people she'd never met and never would, people who deserved a chance to make their own moments, built from their own flawed choices, with the people they found. — Eileen Wilks

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

(Lily and Rule discussing wedding plans ... )
"You want to get married by Carl?"
"Your father's cook?"
"Yes, and I've been wanting to talk about the doves."
"Doves." Her eyes widened in horror. "My mother wanted doves."
"Perhaps she had a point. Wouldn't it look splendid, releasing a few dozen white doves all at once to carry our message of hope and love up to
"
"Your are so full of shit." But she started laughing. "Doves, sure. Our guests would love some flying hors d'oeuvres. Maybe we should have some cute little bunnies for them to chase after the ceremony instead of cake, sending our message of fuzzy, yummy love to flesh eaters everywhre. — Eileen Wilks

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

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

I need to check your ankle."
"Ask."
"If you object, I - "
"Giving me a chance to object is not the same as asking permission. You're used to telling people what to do. That works with those guards you're in charge of. You aren't in charge of me. You have to ask."
One corner of his mouth turned up. "It's more efficient my way."
"If your primary goal in life is efficiency, you should just die."
That startled him. His head actually jerked back. "What?"
"The most efficient way to live a life is to die a couple seconds after you're born. Pfft. Done." She dusted her hands to demonstrate that. "It's too late for you to achieve optimal efficiency, but you could still ... — Eileen Wilks

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

He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him — Eileen Wilks

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention, — Eileen Wilks

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

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? — Eileen Wilks

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. — Eileen Wilks

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

He closed the damn door and turned and stopped, looking at her. "Sometimes," he said softly, and stopped, then started again, "I often wonder why human men are so fixated on how a woman looks when there's so much more to explore, and so many kinds of beauty - why obsess over one particular version? But sometimes, when I look at you, I understand."
And sometimes, when he looked at her the way he was now, she was beautiful. Not just okay. Not even really pretty. Beautiful. — Eileen Wilks

UFOs Are Real. The Air Force Doesn't Exist. — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

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

Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?"
"Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent. — Eileen Wilks

She didn't take it well, I guess," Jasper said. "Hard to deliver that kind of news."
"No ... no, you don't understand. But then you haven't met her." Slowly Rule looked up, relief blooming inside. He felt like he had as a small child, waking from some terrible nightmare to find his father's hand on his shoulder. The sudden bone-deep reassurance wasn't logical, wasn't reasonable. But it was real. "It's okay. It's good. Grandmother is coming. — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

Jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in — Eileen Wilks

Religion turned some folks belligerent. — Eileen Wilks

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks

There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry ... — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

The current crop of experts claimed that baby girls stare at faces while baby boys watch the mobile over their cribs. They extrapolated from this to conclude that women are inherently interested in people and men are inherently interested in objects.

... Turner supposed they might be right in a statistical sense, but numbers don't tell the whole story. If you have one foot in boiling water and one in a tub of dry ice, on the average you're comfortable. — Eileen Wilks

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

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt. — Eileen Wilks

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. — Eileen Wilks

Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair. — Eileen Wilks

... 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 ... — Eileen Wilks

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone. — Eileen Wilks

We aren't guaranteed the time we think we
need to mend fences with those we love. — Eileen Wilks

What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman? — Eileen Wilks

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

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. — Eileen Wilks

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

HYPERBOLE IS THE BEST THING EVER! — Eileen Wilks

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain. — Eileen Wilks

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

Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size. — Eileen Wilks

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

We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to. — Eileen Wilks

The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for. — Eileen Wilks

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? — Eileen Wilks

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

Am I supposed to want you this much?
Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish. — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

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

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

As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down. — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind. — Eileen Wilks

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us. — Eileen Wilks

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. — Eileen Wilks