Natchez Burning
Greg Iles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.”
“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.”
“Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle”
“You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.”
“The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they’re more certain they are their own.”
“If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.”
“For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.”
“Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And if you’ve read your Edith Hamilton or Jane Harrison—or the Old Testament, for that matter—you’ll know that gods acted like men most of the time, or worse.”
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Book Keywords:
sorrow, grief, happiness, adultery, past-and-future
