“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
— Eileen Wilks
“That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.”
— Eileen Wilks
“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”
— Eileen Wilks
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
— Eileen Wilks
“Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,….”
— Eileen Wilks
“The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”
— Eileen Wilks
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
— Eileen Wilks
“People always wanted someone to blame, didn’t they?”
— Eileen Wilks
“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
— Eileen Wilks
“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”
— Eileen Wilks
“Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.”
— Eileen Wilks