Greg Iles said this quote

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

~ Greg Iles

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years, the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.

~ Greg Iles

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

~ Greg Iles

The past is never dead. It's not even past, if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

~ Greg Iles