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Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4) QUOTES

Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4) QUOTES

1 " A man's biggest enemy is his mouth. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

2 " Man plans, God laughs, "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

3 " People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

4 " Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

5 " The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

6 " At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

7 " You can't build happiness on someone else's pain. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

8 " If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

9 " For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

10 " Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they’re more certain they are their own. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

11 " Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And if you’ve read your Edith Hamilton or Jane Harrison—or the Old Testament, for that matter—you’ll know that gods acted like men most of the time, or worse. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

12 " The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

13 " The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

14 " Fate doesn’t let men choose their wars. Or even their battles, sometimes. But one resolute man can sometimes accomplish remarkable things against overwhelming odds. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

15 " But fear and danger aren’t always directly proportional. We’re all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

16 " Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

17 " obeisance "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

18 " diffident voice. “You’re not going to believe this. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

19 " For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound, the baby shoes dipped in bronze, the taint in the blood stream. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. —Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

20 " IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth. "

― Greg Iles , Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)