Eileen Wilks
I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.Collection: Love You
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.Collection: Grief
But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.Collection: Deceiving
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Two
People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?Collection: People
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.Collection: Two
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.Collection: Men
He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for himCollection: Heart
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.Collection: Men
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.Collection: Turtles
Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Wise
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?Collection: Hurt
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?Collection: Want
Religion turned some folks belligerent.Collection: Folks
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.Collection: Peculiar
Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.Collection: Feelings
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.Collection: Life And Death
Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.Collection: Hate
Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.Collection: Rain
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.Collection: Fear
But not all scars showed, did they?Collection: Scar
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.Collection: Gun
What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.Collection: Cat
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.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Dog
I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.Collection: Hurt
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?Collection: Feelings
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.Collection: Bleeding