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Who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD, — Greg Iles

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas. — George Iles

Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine. — Francis Iles

For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. — Greg Iles

into another identity. And I — Greg Iles

blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables. — Greg Iles

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. — George Iles

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

We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us. — Greg Iles

The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation. — Greg Iles

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer. — George Iles

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution — George Iles

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. — George Iles

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons. — George Iles

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. — George Iles

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. — George Iles

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth. — Greg Iles

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle — Greg Iles

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. — George Iles

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life. — Greg Iles

Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish — Greg Iles

PET scan and gene therapy. "I need you — Greg Iles

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde — Greg Iles

I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it. — Greg Iles

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy. — Greg Iles

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When — Greg Iles

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles

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

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot. — Greg Iles

fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor — Greg Iles

For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests — Greg Iles

Don't keep a girl guessing too long, or she'll find the answer somewhere else. — Greg Iles

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust. — Greg Iles

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. — Greg Iles

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles

Even chitlins smell good to a starving man. — Greg Iles

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles

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

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. — Greg Iles

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. — Greg Iles

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. — Greg Iles

Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away. — Greg Iles

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave. — Greg Iles

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt. — George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. — George Iles

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own. — Greg Iles

Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear. — Greg Iles

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

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles

Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals. — Greg Iles

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

Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it. — Greg Iles

Dumbness and silence are two different things. — George Iles

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. — George Iles

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues. — Greg Iles

Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him. — Greg Iles

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world. — Greg Iles

the embarrassment — Greg Iles

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. — George Iles

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels. — Greg Iles

There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole. — Greg Iles

There is always something. — Greg Iles

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man. — Greg Iles

Some things we must pass over in silence. — Greg Iles

The larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. — Greg Iles

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles

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. — Greg Iles

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example. — George Iles

between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal — Greg Iles

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on. — Greg Iles

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use. — George Iles

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. — George Iles

Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly. — Greg Iles

carefully negotiated his way — Greg Iles

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. — Greg Iles

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty. — Greg Iles

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way. — Greg Iles

Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby? — Greg Iles

Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn. — Greg Iles

change my conviction. — Greg Iles

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of — Greg Iles

God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three. — Greg Iles

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles

IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth. — Greg Iles

The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them. — Greg Iles