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1. "Religion turned some folks belligerent." ~ Eileen Wilks

2. "…the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at them. So high above, speaking in gradual whispers about time, about their own flaming hearts and the endless cold that lies between…" ~ Eileen Wilks

3. "Do you need me? Always, but not immediately." ~ Eileen Wilks

4. "Querida. You make me ache" ~ Eileen Wilks

5. "This time he just inhaled, deep and luxurious. The inhale was to fill up on her scent, she knew. The exhale was her name, just that, warm and moist against her skin." ~ Eileen Wilks

6. "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." ~ Eileen Wilks

7. "This...all this, the room, the people here,the odd little pairs and groups they'd formed, the ways each was finding to connect the others... this was what she fought for. For these people, yes. And for moments like this, punctuated by coffee or tea, with a baby on one man's shoulder and a saint humming over the fireplace... everyone gathered together to work toward their common goal. She fought for them, and for people she'd never met and never would, people who deserved a chance to make their own moments, built from their own flawed choices, with the people they found." ~ Eileen Wilks

8. "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." ~ Eileen Wilks

9. "Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good." ~ Eileen Wilks

10. "How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?" ~ Eileen Wilks

11. "You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!" ~ Eileen Wilks

12. "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." ~ Eileen Wilks

13. "We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? Wego there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace." ~ Eileen Wilks

14. "Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right." ~ Eileen Wilks

15. "She wasn't entertainment for him. Hedidn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror." ~ Eileen Wilks

16. "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

17. "I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt." ~ Eileen Wilks

18. "I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you." ~ Eileen Wilks

19. "He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him" ~ Eileen Wilks

20. "I need to check your ankle." "Ask." "If you object, I—" "Giving me a chance to object is not the same as asking permission. You're used to telling people what to do. That works with those guards you're in charge of. You aren't in charge of me. You have to ask." One corner of his mouth turned up. "It's more efficient my way." "If your primary goal in life is efficiency, you should just die." That startled him. His head actually jerked back. "What?" "The most efficient way to live a life is to die a couple seconds after you're born. Pfft. Done." She dusted her hands to demonstrate that. "It's too late for you to achieve optimal efficiency, but you could still . . ." ~ Eileen Wilks

21. "Uh - do you want to do it outside?"Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too." ~ Eileen Wilks

22. "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." ~ Eileen Wilks

23. "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

24. "But not all scars showed, did they?" ~ Eileen Wilks

25. "Bleeding isn't optional for most of us." ~ Eileen Wilks

26. "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

27. "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

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

29. "What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner." ~ Eileen Wilks

30. "Guilt always makes the other feelings worse." ~ Eileen Wilks

31. "Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent." ~ Eileen Wilks

32. "Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?" ~ Eileen Wilks

33. "The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for." ~ Eileen Wilks

34. "Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes." ~ Eileen Wilks

35. "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

36. "(Lily and Rule discussing wedding plans...)"You want to get married by Carl?""Your father's cook?""Yes, and I've been wanting to talk about the doves.""Doves." Her eyes widened in horror. "My mother wanted doves.""Perhaps she had a point. Wouldn't it look splendid, releasing a few dozen white doves all at once to carry our message of hope and love up to --""Your are so full of shit." But she started laughing. "Doves, sure. Our guests would love some flying hors d'oeuvres. Maybe we should have some cute little bunnies for them to chase after the ceremony instead of cake, sending our message of fuzzy, yummy love to flesh eaters everywhre." ~ Eileen Wilks

37. "Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it." ~ Eileen Wilks

38. "We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to." ~ Eileen Wilks

39. "Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like he?d been issued a certain number of words at birth and didn?t want to run out. It took a little effort to get him talking," ~ Eileen Wilks

40. "Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or." ~ Eileen Wilks

41. "Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain." ~ Eileen Wilks

42. "So selfless she was, willing to give up a little sleep for a man who was clearlydetermined to make sure it would be no sacrifice. How did a woman give to a man who was so determined to give to her?" ~ Eileen Wilks

43. "There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry . . ." ~ Eileen Wilks

44. "His eyes made her think of water at night—full of mysteries and hints, revealing little." ~ Eileen Wilks

45. "Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair." ~ Eileen Wilks

46. "He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key." ~ Eileen Wilks

47. "She didn't take it well, I guess," Jasper said. "Hard to deliver that kind of news." "No...no, you don't understand. But then you haven't met her." Slowly Rule looked up, relief blooming inside. He felt like he had as a small child, waking from some terrible nightmare to find his father's hand on his shoulder. The sudden bone-deep reassurance wasn't logical, wasn't reasonable. But it was real. "It's okay. It's good. Grandmother is coming." ~ Eileen Wilks

48. "Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they're gone." ~ Eileen Wilks

49. "When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive." ~ Eileen Wilks

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