Quotes by : Robert Harris

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

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

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

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether....

Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others,....

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin –....

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened....

Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right,....