Bleeding isn't optional for most of us. Eileen Wilks More Quotes by Eileen Wilks More Quotes From Eileen Wilks I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you. Eileen Wilks cases love-you thinking 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. Eileen Wilks ocean grief simple 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. Eileen Wilks joining two world Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too. Eileen Wilks want It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell. Eileen Wilks turtles play long Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time? Eileen Wilks want feels Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right. Eileen Wilks scare space men He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him Eileen Wilks one-woman heart world Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention. Eileen Wilks complicated attention men 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. Eileen Wilks skins would-be night 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. Eileen Wilks real wise fun 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? Eileen Wilks let-it-go hurt feelings Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. Eileen Wilks guilt feelings People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they? Eileen Wilks wanted-someone blame people Religion turned some folks belligerent. Eileen Wilks folks Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. Eileen Wilks violent turns peculiar You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base! Eileen Wilks 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. Eileen Wilks guy bird two I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt. Eileen Wilks careful be-careful hurt Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good. Eileen Wilks regret guilt too-late