Enigma Quotes

“By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“she said, with some asperity, ‘that you burned our only clues.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“He tried to imagine what fresh reserves of sycophancy Skynner would draw on to communicate with a being even higher than the First Lord of the Admiralty, and found he couldn’t do it.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“It was like picturing some gorgeous parakeet in a cage full of sparrows.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“The racket of typewriters and telephones was amplified by the membrane of wooden walls to create a bedlam of activity. He had barely”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“Rooks called from the tops of skeletal elms.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“He was quite clear now about what he was going to do, even though conscience told him it was wrong and logic told him it was stupid. And, in principle, he agreed.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“ancient runic systems and the Irish codes of the Book of Ballymote with their exotic names (‘Serpent through the heather’, ‘Vexation of a poet’s heart’), through the codes of Pope Sylvester II and Hildegard von Bingen, through the invention of Alberti’s cipher disk – the first poly-alphabetic cipher – and Cardinal Richelieu’s grilles, all the way down to the machine-generated mysteries of the German Enigma,”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“You can at least say this for the blackout, he thought, it has given us back the stars.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had no faith in any of it. Faith in mathematics, yes; faith in logic, of course; faith in the trajectory of the stars, yes, perhaps. But faith in a God, Christian or otherwise?”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“Tom.’ He took a breath and braced himself, as if for a blow.”
― Robert Harris, Enigma

“He”
― Robert Harris, Enigma