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Greg Iles QUOTES

Greg Iles QUOTES

1 " I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together. "

― Greg Iles , Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #6)

2 " Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up. "

― Greg Iles , Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)

3 " ...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other. "

― Greg Iles , Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #6)

4 " Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. "

― Greg Iles , Dark Matter

5 " We do not just belong to this universe, we are it. "

― Greg Iles , Dark Matter

6 " Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . . "

― Greg Iles , The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)

7 " The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. "

― Greg Iles , The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)

8 " The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds. "

― Greg Iles

9 " A man's biggest enemy is his mouth. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

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― Greg Iles , Third Degree

11 " Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. "

― Greg Iles , Dark Matter

12 " I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. "

― Greg Iles , The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)

13 " When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy. "

― Greg Iles , The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)

14 " He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire. "

― Greg Iles , Dark Matter

15 " Man plans, God laughs, "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

16 " Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past. "

― Greg Iles , Dark Matter

17 " When a parent dies, your center of gravity is altered. Even if you lived apart from them—even if you walled yourself off from all contact—you are irrevocably lessened by their passing. Death, like gravity, respects no barriers. "

― Greg Iles , Cemetery Road

18 " My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student in the class. Emil and the Detectives. White Fang. Like that. Money is tight for us, but when it comes to books my mother is a spendthrift; I can order as many as I like. I sit here day after day, waiting for my books to arrive. My books. It takes a month or more, but when they finally do, when the teacher opens the big box and passes out the orders to the kids, checking the books against a form taken from her desk, I glow with happiness. I've never had the newest dress, or the prettiest, but I always have the tallest stack of books. Little paperbacks that smell of wet ink. I lay my cheek against their cool covers, anticipating the stories inside, knowing all the other girls wonder what I could possibly want with those books. "

― Greg Iles , Dead Sleep

19 " You know, the truth isn’t hard to find, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They’re afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

20 " I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. —Jane Austen, Persuasion, paraphr. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)