Quotes from Eileen Wilks

UFOs Are Real. The Air Force Doesn't Exist.

Understanding did not always wipe away pain, but it helped, surely?.... ...and if understanding did not eliminate troubles it eased the sense of betrayal- Li Lei

Democracy was great for many things, but furniture wasn't one of them.

It's possible to possess great integrity and be wrong. To do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Integrity is—it's about being true to what you believe is true and good.

Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

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.

jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in

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

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

Love was like smell, Rule thought. Smell was the most complex and dimensional of the senses, weaving together past and present, near and distant, motion and stillness. Love, too, was a weaver.

science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.

Nice doggie.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

But not all scars showed, did they?