106 Quotes by Greg Iles

If physicists want to develop a time machine, they should explore fear. Fear dilates and compresses time without limit. For desperate people awaiting rescue, every instant stretches into unendurable agony; for those awaiting death by cancer, the earth spins relentlessly, shortening the days until they pass like fanned pages in a book. Trapped in our bodies, perception is all, and the engine of perception is hunger for life.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

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.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

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

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.