Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles Approach Copy Share Image
...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. — Greg Iles Heart Copy Share Image
“Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.” — Greg Iles Fate Copy Share Image
“Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else.” — Greg Iles Girl Copy Share Image
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles Critics Copy Share Image
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. — Greg Iles Brutality Copy Share Image
A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American. — Greg Iles African american Copy Share Image
“The mills of the gods grind slowly…but they grind to dust. ” — greg iles Grind Slowly 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 Attention Copy Share Image
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy. — Greg Iles Anxiety Copy Share Image
It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we… — Greg Iles Adulthood Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Army Copy Share Image
“We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to… — Greg Iles Fear 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… — Greg Iles Gone with the wind Copy Share Image
All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings… — Greg Iles Bad 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… — Greg Iles Gold Copy Share Image
“Faith is something you have or you don’t, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from… — Greg Iles Belief Copy Share Image
“He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes… — Greg Iles Grief and loss Copy Share Image
“Remember what Aristotle said!” she cries. “Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace!” Horace? “What did Horace… — Greg Iles Horace Copy Share Image
“My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative… — Greg Iles Deer hunter Copy Share Image
“As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the… — Greg Iles Human behavior Copy Share Image
“Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General… — Greg Iles Gods Copy Share Image
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a… — Greg Iles Creativity Copy Share Image
A tourist will just walk up to a Natchezian on the street and ask, 'Where does Greg Iles live?' And they'll say,… — Greg Iles Door Copy Share Image
“My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student… — Greg Iles Books 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of… — Greg Iles Civil war Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Art Copy Share Image
“The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than… — Greg Iles Corpse 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 Time 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 Average person Copy Share Image
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked… — Greg Iles Atoms Copy Share Image
