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1. "Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it." ~ Greg Iles
2. "I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now." ~ Greg Iles
3. "Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach." ~ Greg Iles
4. "Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past." ~ Greg Iles
5. "He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire." ~ Greg Iles
6. "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
7. "God is all powerful.God is good.Evil exists.You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three." ~ Greg Iles
8. "The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it." ~ Greg Iles
9. "The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust." ~ Greg Iles
10. "Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the vision was there. Between the fifth and twelfth paintings, he began to evolve something much more fascinating. Are you familiar with the Nabis?"The what?"Nabis. It means 'prophets.' Bonnard, Denis, Vuillard?"What I know about art wouldn't fill a postcard."Don't blame yourself. That's the American educational system. They simply don't teach it. Not unless you beg for it. Not even in university." ~ Greg Iles
11. "Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty cereal bowls and fast-food bags, and her shirt is open to the waist, revealing small sagging breasts. Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage." ~ Greg Iles
12. "Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run on them before and after you. The lover you kissed was not the same person he or she was sixty seconds before. In that minute, a million skin cells had died and been replaced by new ones. The smallest slices of space-time separated thought from action Life from death." ~ Greg Iles
13. "Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself." ~ Greg Iles
14. "We do not just belong to this universe, we are it." ~ Greg Iles
15. "path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals." ~ Greg Iles
16. "Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away." ~ Greg Iles
17. "Some things we must pass over in silence." ~ Greg Iles
18. "'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was." ~ Greg Iles
19. "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. . ." ~ Greg Iles

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I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real?"
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