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Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2) QUOTES

Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel. "

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

3 " But as my mother always said: You never know what’s cooking in someone else’s pot. "

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

4 " When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home. "

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

5 " A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves. "

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

6 " 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)

7 " 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. "

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

8 " when the Asian face was illuminated "

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

9 " And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one. "

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

10 " her? I wonder. “Tom?” I say, taking advantage of "

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

11 " CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All "

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

12 " 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)

13 " 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)

14 " Quentin finishes with the limb and sits up. “Who wears the pants in your family, man?” “That depends on the issue. "

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

15 " 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. "

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

16 " 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. "

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

17 " The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking "

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

18 " But now that I’ve seen the reality up close, I understand white frustration. Black people here are just different. Not all of them, but so many. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because this was one of the biggest slaveholding cotton counties along the river. I don’t know. I used to think it was ignorance, but I’m starting to see it as willful ignorance, and maybe worse. "

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

19 " Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there’s almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it’s some kind of act of civil disobedience. I’m sick of it, Penn. "

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

20 " And the black politicians…my God. I’ve watched black aldermen do patently illegal things and then brag about it. They don’t care whether something is legal or not.” “White politicians abused the system for years, Caitlin. They just did it in a more subtle way.” “I know that. But is that an excuse for blacks to repeat the abuses of the old system? The system Martin Luther King and Malcolm X died to dismantle? "

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