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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 955b54c | And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one. | Greg Iles | ||
| 8b0b4d4 | Lenz snorts. "My mistake." | Greg Iles | ||
| c707aa1 | Remember what Aristotle said!" she cries. "Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace!" Horace? "What did Horace say, Pithy?" "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own." -- | Greg Iles | ||
| 1b9486f | 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 | ||
| f824098 | He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes like black mirrors, at once shallow and bottomless. He had the feeling that if he pressed his finger to one of those eyes, it would shatter and fall inward through a black cavern of grief and loss that could never be filled. | Greg Iles | ||
| a4bfd9d | 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.. | Greg Iles | ||
| ab90c12 | Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of the town ate rat flesh and clung to their long-cherished beliefs. How many had died in that lost cause? Dr. Tarver wondered. Fifty thousand casualties at Gettysburg alone, and for what? To free the slaves who built this house? To preserve the Union? Had Stonewall Jackson died to create a nation of couch potatoes ignorant of their o.. | Greg Iles | ||
| 4a8311e | Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him. | Greg Iles | ||
| 7e33856 | When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we're passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a woodshed. | Greg Iles | ||
| e4df083 | While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink. | Greg Iles | ||
| 7cfea36 | Nothing frightens me more than the faith in my daughter's eyes. How many men deserve that kind of trust? One by one, the mentors I've most admired eventually revealed chinks in their armor, cracks in their facades, and tired feet of clay--or worse. | Greg Iles | ||
| fa91973 | Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets. | sex | Greg Iles | |
| 88f28dd | I want you to inject this into a red-top Vacutainer and spin it down." "Okay. What tests do you want done?" "A CBC and a standard Chem-20. But don't throw any serum away. I may do some more tests," | Greg Iles | ||
| 9c7aa4f | My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez's conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. To this day, I believe the Arcade owners booked the film because they thought it was a movie about deer hunting, not Vietnam. The Concordia Beacon | Greg Iles | ||
| abeae24 | For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests | Greg Iles | ||
| d3479d7 | As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the Hebrews. A shameful human practice, he'd always thought, one born from guilt and superstition. But most human behavior had grown out of necessity, and he now understood the empirical value of the rituals for which he had felt only contempt before. | Greg Iles | ||
| 9985a9c | her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of" | Greg Iles | ||
| d591c05 | path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals. | Greg Iles | ||
| dfe3ebd | There it was, the choice I'd confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals. | Greg Iles | ||
| 0b8f142 | Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole. | Greg Iles | ||
| a70c414 | CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All | Greg Iles | ||
| 3c9e20a | parking | Greg Iles | ||
| 8c35199 | Just because you will not see the work completed, does not mean you are free not to take it up. | Greg Iles | ||
| 414ca9f | treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism--the most destructive forces available to man. | Greg Iles | ||
| 19d7f34 | PET scan and gene therapy. "I need you" | Greg Iles | ||
| 6eb9b88 | The colonel had a single vice--whiskey--and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation. | Greg Iles | ||
| e6d7a4c | trees | Greg Iles | ||
| 2276d72 | into another identity. And I | Greg Iles | ||
| 2bc0299 | There is always something. | Greg Iles | ||
| 4497171 | elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?" | Greg Iles | ||
| e774766 | White America looks at the Vietnamese, the Irish, the Jews, and they say, 'What's the problem with the blacks?' The resentment you hear around this town is based on that, not on old ideas of superiority. | Greg Iles | ||
| 1c3083e | masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn't break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back. | Greg Iles | ||
| ae13ea9 | William Faulkner ever said wasn't written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it's not even past. | Greg Iles | ||
| 571e613 | fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor | Greg Iles | ||
| 65bb425 | 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 | ||
| 51993b9 | carefully negotiated his way | Greg Iles | ||
| a5911b1 | Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly." | Greg Iles | ||
| 59dd52f | notebooks. | Greg Iles | ||
| be1e252 | kidnaping. | Greg Iles | ||
| 40d849a | Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish | Greg Iles | ||
| 01298c2 | sleeve, | Greg Iles | ||
| 6c31aa4 | lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out | Greg Iles | ||
| e9b35df | Quentin finishes with the limb and sits up. "Who wears the pants in your family, man?" "That depends on the issue." -- | Greg Iles | ||
| c98c4f2 | Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent. | Greg Iles |