Best 29 quotes of Eileen Wilks on MyQuotes

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.

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

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

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

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

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's." -Cynna

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

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

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

I have spider blood on me.” “That’s the girliest thing I’ve ever heard you say.

It’s not a great idea to have the lead on an investigation under the control of a crazy spook. She’s armed, for Christ’s sake. I’d appreciate a little warning.

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

The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.