True Evil Quotes

“All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it’s over. And that’s not life—it’s living death.”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“the moral convictions of animal rights activists lasted about as long as it took them to get a fatal disease that could be cured by receiving a valve from a pig’s heart. Suddenly that pig didn’t seem so goddamned sacred after all.”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“When people got into the habit of lying, they came to depend on it as a means of sliding easily through life.”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“A man needs someone to engage his deepest emotions, to relieve his drives, to soften his obsessions, to accept the gifts he feels compelled to give, and maybe most important, to simply be with him during the thousands of small moments that in aggregate compose a life.”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“psychiatric evaluation.” Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. “If you will agree to”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“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, True Evil

“down to brass tacks. What have you”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“sleeve,”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“PET scan and gene therapy. “I need you”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“into another identity. And I”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“I want you to inject this into a red-top Vacutainer and spin it down.” “Okay. What tests do you want done?” “A CBC and a standard Chem-20. But don’t throw any serum away. I may do some more tests,”
― Greg Iles, True Evil

“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of the town ate rat flesh and clung to their long-cherished beliefs. How many had died in that lost cause? Dr. Tarver wondered. Fifty thousand casualties at Gettysburg alone, and for what? To free the slaves who built this house? To preserve the Union? Had Stonewall Jackson died to create a nation of couch potatoes ignorant of their own history and incapable of simple mathematics? If those brave soldiers in blue and gray had seen what lay in the future, they would have laid down their muskets and walked home to their farms.”
― Greg Iles, True Evil