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121 " I want you to inject this into a red-top Vacutainer and spin it down.” “Okay. What tests do you want done?” “A CBC and a standard Chem-20. But don’t throw any serum away. I may do some more tests, "
― Greg Iles , True Evil
122 " My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. To this day, I believe the Arcade owners booked the film because they thought it was a movie about deer hunting, not Vietnam. The Concordia Beacon "
― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
123 " For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests "
― Greg Iles , Black Cross
124 " As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the Hebrews. A shameful human practice, he’d always thought, one born from guilt and superstition. But most human behavior had grown out of necessity, and he now understood the empirical value of the rituals for which he had felt only contempt before. "
125 " her? I wonder. “Tom?” I say, taking advantage of "
― Greg Iles , Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
126 " path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals. "
― Greg Iles , The Death Factory (Penn Cage, #3.5)
127 " There it was, the choice I’d confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals. "
128 " Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole. "
― Greg Iles , The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
129 " CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All "
130 " parking "
― Greg Iles , 24 hours
131 " Just because you will not see the work completed, does not mean you are free not to take it up. "
132 " treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man. "
― Greg Iles , Spandau Phoenix (World War Two #2)
133 " PET scan and gene therapy. “I need you "
134 " The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation. "
135 " trees "
― Greg Iles , Mortal Fear
136 " into another identity. And I "
137 " There is always something. "
138 " elbowed Danny. “You think Shields is the father of that baby? "
― Greg Iles , Third Degree
139 " White America looks at the Vietnamese, the Irish, the Jews, and they say, ‘What’s the problem with the blacks?’ The resentment you hear around this town is based on that, not on old ideas of superiority. "
140 " masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn’t break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back. "