“because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out. — Greg Iles Black Copy Share Image
Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good. — Greg Iles Good 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
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
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
“When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.” — Greg Iles Talking to yourself Copy Share Image
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. — Greg Iles Definitions Copy Share Image
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles Approach 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 Divine justice 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
“have crystal meth over in Natchez?” “Of course we do. I’m not interested in the meth. I’m interested in the men who… — Greg Iles Crystal meth Copy Share Image
“For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“God is all powerful. God is good. Evil exists. You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.” — Greg Iles God Copy Share Image
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving… — Greg Iles Character 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
“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
“Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.” — Greg Iles Truth 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
“treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.” — Greg Iles Betrayal Copy Share Image
“For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
