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141 " William Faulkner ever said wasn’t written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it’s not even past. "
― Greg Iles , Sleep No More
142 " fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor "
― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)
143 " 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. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. "
― Greg Iles , The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
144 " carefully negotiated his way "
― Greg Iles , Dark Matter
145 " Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. “I like spitting on the Rebels,” he says distractedly. "
― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
146 " notebooks. "
147 " People say time be like a river. That’s bullshit. You can swim upstream and downstream in a river. Can you do that with time? Hell, no. Time ain’t no river. Time is a big fucking razor blade scraping across the universe. And the edge of that razor is now. See? That’s all there is, man. No upstream or down, no past or future—just now. And all the stuff we feel, like hoping and feeling sorry for shit, that’s nothing. Useless. Nothing matters in this world but now. "
― Greg Iles , Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
148 " kidnaping. "
149 " Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish "
150 " sleeve, "
― Greg Iles , True Evil
151 " lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out "
152 " Quentin finishes with the limb and sits up. “Who wears the pants in your family, man?” “That depends on the issue. "
153 " Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent. "
154 " Mia’s eyes for too long would send me straight down the road Drew has already traveled. The reality of a stunningly beautiful and intelligent young woman explaining why it’s all right for you to make love to her is enough to make any male lose all capacity for rational thought. In my mind I hear Wade Anders telling me that the hardest thing he ever did was turn down the girls who’ve come on to him in his office. Those girls, I am certain, were not even in Mia’s league. "
155 " But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she’s telling me beforehand that I’ll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right. "
156 " Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding.” Hickey dialed a number and "
― Greg Iles , 24 hours
157 " hair. He’s bald now. But he still looks like he could ride a bull ragged.” I jump at the sound of the garage door. Mom gives me a little wave, then crosses the kitchen as silently as if she were floating on a magic carpet and disappears down the hall. Moments later, my father walks through the kitchen door, his face drawn and tired. “I figured you’d be waiting for me.” “Dad, we’ve got to talk.” Dread seems to seep from the pores in his face. “Let me get a drink. I’ll meet you in the library. "
158 " The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking "
159 " chopper’s "
160 " God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When "