Some stories must wait to be told.
Any writer worth his salt know this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate into your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you're simply waiting for the principals to die. Sometimes it's both.
This story is like that.
A girl walks the straight and narrow all her life; she follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day she makes a misstep. She crosses the line and sets in a chain of events that will take from her everything she has and damn her forever in the eyes of those she loves.
We all sense that invisible line of demarcation, like an unspoken challenge hanging in the air. And there is some wild thing in our nature that makes us want to cross it, that compels us with the silent insistence evolutionary imperative to risk all for a glinting shadow. Most of us suppress that urge. Fear stops us more than wisdom, as in most things. But some of us take that step. And in the taking, we start down a path from which it is difficult and sometimes impossible to return.
-Turning Angel by Greg Iles. I love love love this book. I recommend this for those who love books that showcases a lot of mystery and violence.
Any writer worth his salt know this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate into your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you're simply waiting for the principals to die. Sometimes it's both.
This story is like that.
A girl walks the straight and narrow all her life; she follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day she makes a misstep. She crosses the line and sets in a chain of events that will take from her everything she has and damn her forever in the eyes of those she loves.
We all sense that invisible line of demarcation, like an unspoken challenge hanging in the air. And there is some wild thing in our nature that makes us want to cross it, that compels us with the silent insistence evolutionary imperative to risk all for a glinting shadow. Most of us suppress that urge. Fear stops us more than wisdom, as in most things. But some of us take that step. And in the taking, we start down a path from which it is difficult and sometimes impossible to return.
-Turning Angel by Greg Iles. I love love love this book. I recommend this for those who love books that showcases a lot of mystery and violence.
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