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The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5) QUOTES

The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5) QUOTES

1 " You know, the truth isn’t hard to find, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They’re afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

2 " I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. —Jane Austen, Persuasion, paraphr. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

3 " Greed, apathy, hubris—even loyalty—all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

4 " learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

5 " 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)

6 " 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. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

7 " There’s nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

8 " change my conviction. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

9 " The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and cold to the touch is the most alien object in the world. Natural instinct drives us away from the decaying body, and quickly. Yet love compels us forward, to kiss the empty vessel of the soul departed. ...Lesson two: there are many fates worse than death. The most common is surviving the death of a loved one. For the dead, all questions have been answered or made irrelevant. For the survivor, some questions have been rendered unanswerable. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

10 " Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man” ran through his overheated brain: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

11 " She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

12 " between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

13 " a military base, to check out the story. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

14 " fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

15 " notebooks. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

16 " chopper’s "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

17 " he know how to work the computers, navigate our intranet? Would he know the user names or passwords of the reporters?” “No. But if Nick didn’t delete the files, then it could be anybody. How the hell do we "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

18 " About twenty minutes ago, during a commercial break, Melba had thought she’d heard a helicopter in the distance. Tom had been unable to hear it, but that was no surprise, given his progressive hearing loss, and she’d heard nothing since. He told her it was probably nothing to worry about. Statistically, Mississippi had some of the worst drivers in the nation, so LifeFlight helicopters were common at all hours, even over rural counties. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

19 " Carl Jung’s admonition: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)

20 " And I learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave. "

― Greg Iles , The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)