106 Quotes by Greg Iles

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 try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he’'s already taken your secret weapon.”

I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.

My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.