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618004a	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
a298146	Liudi nadeliaiutsia fizicheskoi krasotoi v rezul'tate igry slepogo sluchaia. Eto dar, kotoryi daetsia ne za kakie-to zaslugi, a prosto tak. Tut absoliutno nechem gordit'sia.		Greg Iles
7435b78	The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.	sorrow past-and-future	Greg Iles
de37f7f	You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.		Greg Iles
4cdca31	A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life.		Greg Iles
4bd5464	When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it's time to go home.		Greg Iles
a57d85e	Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.		Greg Iles
9ac178f	because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,		Greg Iles
5cc0357	A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.	gossip-quotes	Greg Iles
13d4f9c	Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . .		Greg Iles
a54e5de	The female memory defies explanation.		Greg Iles
c98faf2	learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.		Greg Iles
ff8df54	As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present.		Greg Iles
62007b3	Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the vision was there. Between the fifth and twelfth paintings, he began to evolve something much more fascinating. Are you familiar with the Nabis?" The what?" Nabis. It means 'prophets.' Bonnard, Denis, Vuillard?" What I know about art wouldn't fill a postcard." Don't blame yourself. That's the American e..		Greg Iles
caa5fdd	Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty cereal bowls and fast-food bags, and her shirt is open to the waist, revealing small sagging breasts. Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage.		Greg Iles
a7425b2	There's no universal tally of good and evil, balancing right and wrong. The Christians with their God-has-a-plan fantasy, the Hindus with their karmic balance . . . it's all wishful thinking. Primitive religious impulse. Linus's damned security blanket.		Greg Iles
aded66d	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
881d049	To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.		Greg Iles
40a8db4	Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.		Greg Iles
29d4bf1	Jung didn't try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dangerous. Because it can't be done. He believed you have to recognize your Shadow, come to grips with it, accept it, and integrate it.		Greg Iles
d769d14	Given the nature of the mind, we'll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers.		Greg Iles
bf93b08	You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.		Greg Iles
21ce00d	It's a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.		Greg Iles
f1f44d5	The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it.		Greg Iles
5d000f3	Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run o..		Greg Iles
1889713	The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what's behind it comes out under its own power.		Greg Iles
5035a5e	Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.		Greg Iles
622121b	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
f07a8ba	Southern women don't show their pain to anybody. They aren't raised that way. But they feel it.		Greg Iles
cd837e5	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
e2aafe1	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
2043ef4	when the Asian face was illuminated		Greg Iles
772708a	psychiatric evaluation." Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. "If you will agree to"		Greg Iles
8c336b9	There's nothing like a mystery to distract you from reality.		Greg Iles
97415c9	obeisance		Greg Iles
fb9b24e	I guess.		Greg Iles
6d4b2d6	change my conviction.		Greg Iles
c3f9095	I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.		Greg Iles
242b6c8	who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,		Greg Iles
d9b6aab	Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.		Greg Iles
e8ad92e	blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables."		Greg Iles
14790f4	diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this."		Greg Iles
c25b6ad	Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.		Greg Iles
b2d0327	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 drama..		Greg Iles

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

a298146

Liudi nadeliaiutsia fizicheskoi krasotoi v rezul'tate igry slepogo sluchaia. Eto dar, kotoryi daetsia ne za kakie-to zaslugi, a prosto tak. Tut absoliutno nechem gordit'sia.

Greg Iles

7435b78

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

sorrow past-and-future

Greg Iles

de37f7f

You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.

Greg Iles

4cdca31

A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life.

Greg Iles

4bd5464

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

Greg Iles

a57d85e

Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.

Greg Iles

9ac178f

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

Greg Iles

5cc0357

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

gossip-quotes

Greg Iles

13d4f9c

Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . .

Greg Iles

a54e5de

The female memory defies explanation.

Greg Iles

c98faf2

learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Greg Iles

ff8df54

As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present.

Greg Iles

62007b3

Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the vision was there. Between the fifth and twelfth paintings, he began to evolve something much more fascinating. Are you familiar with the Nabis?" The what?" Nabis. It means 'prophets.' Bonnard, Denis, Vuillard?" What I know about art wouldn't fill a postcard." Don't blame yourself. That's the American e..

Greg Iles

caa5fdd

Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty cereal bowls and fast-food bags, and her shirt is open to the waist, revealing small sagging breasts. Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage.

Greg Iles

a7425b2

There's no universal tally of good and evil, balancing right and wrong. The Christians with their God-has-a-plan fantasy, the Hindus with their karmic balance . . . it's all wishful thinking. Primitive religious impulse. Linus's damned security blanket.

Greg Iles

aded66d

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

881d049

To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.

Greg Iles

40a8db4

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.

Greg Iles

29d4bf1

Jung didn't try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dangerous. Because it can't be done. He believed you have to recognize your Shadow, come to grips with it, accept it, and integrate it.

Greg Iles

d769d14

Given the nature of the mind, we'll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers.

Greg Iles

bf93b08

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.

Greg Iles

21ce00d

It's a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.

Greg Iles

f1f44d5

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

Greg Iles

5d000f3

Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run o..

Greg Iles

1889713

The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what's behind it comes out under its own power.

Greg Iles

5035a5e

Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.

Greg Iles

622121b

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

f07a8ba

Southern women don't show their pain to anybody. They aren't raised that way. But they feel it.

Greg Iles

cd837e5

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

e2aafe1

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

2043ef4

when the Asian face was illuminated

Greg Iles

772708a

psychiatric evaluation." Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. "If you will agree to"

Greg Iles

8c336b9

There's nothing like a mystery to distract you from reality.

Greg Iles

97415c9

obeisance

Greg Iles

fb9b24e

I guess.

Greg Iles

6d4b2d6

change my conviction.

Greg Iles

c3f9095

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.

Greg Iles

242b6c8

who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,

Greg Iles

d9b6aab

Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.

Greg Iles

e8ad92e

blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables."

Greg Iles

14790f4

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this."

Greg Iles

c25b6ad

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

Greg Iles

b2d0327

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 drama..

Greg Iles