How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? — Eileen Wilks Certainty Copy Share Image
“We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can’t, mostly, but we want to.” — Eileen Wilks People Who Matter Copy Share Image
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or. — Eileen Wilks Death Copy Share Image
“There is no place on you I can’t love, and love grants me entry . . .” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“I have spider blood on me.” “That’s the girliest thing I’ve ever heard you say.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable. — Eileen Wilks Hate Copy Share Image
“We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.” — Eileen Wilks Fences Copy Share Image
“Am I supposed to want you this much? Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will… — Eileen Wilks Cat Copy Share Image
“This time he just inhaled, deep and luxurious. The inhale was to fill up on her scent, she knew. The exhale was… — Eileen Wilks Time Copy Share Image
“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 Bullshit Copy Share Image
Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible,… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a… — Eileen Wilks Compromise Copy Share Image
“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… — Eileen Wilks Integrity Copy Share Image
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention, — Eileen Wilks Attention Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t entertainment for him. He didn’t need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“…the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at… — Eileen Wilks Astronomy Copy Share Image
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now… — Eileen Wilks Ceremony Copy Share Image
“Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“She was talking about the future. About their future, as if it were settled and agreed upon that they would be together.… — eileen wilks Right words Copy Share Image
“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… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“(Lily and Rule discussing wedding plans...) "You want to get married by Carl?" "Your father's cook?" "Yes, and I've been wanting to… — Eileen Wilks Doves Copy Share Image
“Walking was a habit he'd been unwilling to give up. He couldn't see the point in shutting himself up in a vehivle… — Eileen Wilks Habit Copy Share Image
“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… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“I’m socially impaired. I get surprised all the time by people saying and doing irrational things. Take gay marriage. Why would some… — Eileen Wilks Close mindedness Copy Share Image
“He closed the damn door and turned and stopped, looking at her. “Sometimes,” he said softly, and stopped, then started again, “I… — Eileen Wilks Beauty Copy Share Image
“I need to check your ankle.” “Ask.” “If you object, I—” “Giving me a chance to object is not the same as… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right. — Eileen Wilks Men Copy Share Image
Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too. — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image