Quotes by Robert Harris

“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.”

“People perish. Books are immortal.”

“Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”

“Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82”

“Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of th...”

“Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of...”

“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipula...”

“...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...”

“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”

“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this...”

“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.”