“When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“There have been times I would have given anything for such faith, for the belief that divine justice exists somewhere in the… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. And who… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things:… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
