Eileen Wilks

“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”

“Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....”

“Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.”

“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”

“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”

“The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”