Blood Magic
A source page for quotes linked to Eileen Wilks.
“The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”
“Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's." -Cynna”
“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”
“Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.”
“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.”
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”
“I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.”
“Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.”
“Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.”
“It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.”
“Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.”
“He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him”
“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”
“What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.”
“But not all scars showed, did they?”
“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
“Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.”
“Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.”
“Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.”