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61 " Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. "
― Greg Iles , The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
62 " Jung didn’t try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dangerous. Because it can’t be done. He believed you have to recognize your Shadow, come to grips with it, accept it, and integrate it. "
63 " Given the nature of the mind, we’ll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers. "
― Greg Iles , Cemetery Road
64 " You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool. "
65 " It’s a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease. "
66 " The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it. "
― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
67 " Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run on them before and after you. The lover you kissed was not the same person he or she was sixty seconds before. In that minute, a million skin cells had died and been replaced by new ones. The smallest slices of space-time separated thought from action Life from death. "
― Greg Iles , Dark Matter
68 " The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power. "
69 " Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel. "
― Greg Iles , Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
70 " Fate doesn’t let men choose their wars. Or even their battles, sometimes. But one resolute man can sometimes accomplish remarkable things against overwhelming odds. "
71 " Southern women don’t show their pain to anybody. They aren’t raised that way. But they feel it. "
72 " Only in the shadow of death do we sense the true velocity of time—while adrenaline blasts through our systems, eternity becomes tangible and all else blurs into background. "
― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)
73 " But fear and danger aren’t always directly proportional. We’re all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us. "
74 " Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose provenance dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. "
75 " A glacier consumes whole forests by inches. "
76 " He did say something about my butt once.” “What?” “No way.” “Come on.” “God.” She bowed her head as though mortified. “He said I had a ghetto bootie.” I grabbed the wheel to keep us on the road. “Meaning?” “You know…a butt like a black chick.” I laughed at Mia’s expression of mixed embarrassment and amusement. “Do you have one?” “You tell me.” “Yeah, you kind of do.” She burst out laughing. “It is a good one, though, I’ll admit that.” “It better be,” she said. “I work on it enough. "
77 " McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes. "
78 " darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. “Straighten up!” he screamed. "
― Greg Iles , Spandau Phoenix (World War Two #2)
79 " There’s nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole. "
80 " Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it. "