51 Quotes by Eileen Wilks


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    He closed the damn door and turned and stopped, looking at her. “Sometimes,” he said softly, and stopped, then started again, “I often wonder why human men are so fixated on how a woman looks when there’s so much more to explore, and so many kinds of beauty—why obsess over one particular version? But sometimes, when I look at you, I understand."And sometimes, when he looked at her the way he was now, she was beautiful. Not just okay. Not even really pretty. Beautiful.

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    Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

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    Am I supposed to want you this much?Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.

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    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.

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    Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

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    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.

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