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The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3) QUOTES

The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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)

3 " 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)

4 " Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away. "

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

5 " because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin, "

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

6 " When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it. "

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

7 " Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be. "

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

8 " While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink. "

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

9 " fuchsia-blooming crape myrtle trees, which are tended "

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

10 " You said you had enough evidence to convict Jonathan Sands of money laundering on your own.” “That’s correct.” “I’d like to see that evidence.” “I’d like a chocolate chip cookie without the chips.” “Mr. Cage— "

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

11 " 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)

12 " If physicists want to develop a time machine, they should explore fear. Fear dilates and compresses time without limit. For desperate people awaiting rescue, every instant stretches into unendurable agony; for those awaiting death by cancer, the earth spins relentlessly, shortening the days until they pass like fanned pages in a book. Trapped in our bodies, perception is all, and the engine of perception is hunger for life. "

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

13 " fathers and brothers who would readily kill to avenge those they should have loved far better when the person was alive. "

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

14 " No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a comin’. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger "

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