Eileen Wilks Quotes

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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
• Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.
• Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
• Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
• 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…
• Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
• People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
• Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
• Religion turned some folks belligerent.
• Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
• You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
• I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
• How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
• Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
• I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.
• Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

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