106 Quotes by Greg Iles

Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they’re more certain they are their own.

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.

Only in the shadow of death do we sense the true velocity of time – while adrenaline blasts through our systems, eternity becomes tangible and all else blurs into background.

There is always something.

Reality abides in the eyes.

When a parent dies, your center of gravity is altered. Even if you lived apart from them – even if you walled yourself off from all contact – you are irrevocably lessened by their passing. Death, like gravity, respects no barriers.

The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it.

Southern women don’t show their pain to anybody. They aren’t raised that way. But they feel it.