The Key to Rebecca Quotes

“Rommel could smell the sea. At Torbruk the heat and the dust and flies were as bad as they had been in the desert, but it was all made bearable by that occasional whiff of salty dampness in the faint breeze.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. “This is very important to you, this box.”
“It’s important to the world.”

Ishmael said: “The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then we die.” He shrugged.

He would never understand, Wolff thought; but others would.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“The boy was asleep in his seat, his feet only just reaching the floor, his body slumped sideways, his hair falling over his forehead. His mouth was open, and his jaws were moving slightly: Vandam knew, for he had seen this before, that Billy was grinding his teeth in his sleep.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“I have never seen a British soldier, but I know that I hate them.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“He was sly, deceitful, cruel, generous, and always laughing: for Wolff he embodied the age-old vices and virtues of the Middle East.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“The situation was becoming more and more like a nightmare or a farce, in which well-intentioned people pushed him into increasingly senseless behavior in consequence of one small lie.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“Newman’s kindness was becoming a nuisance—could that possibly be intentional?”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“he liked the animal as much as a man could like a camel, which is to say that he hated it only a little.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“detrás del mostrador o en la trastienda,”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“Durante todo el viaje había pensado en aquel lugar. En”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“había recogido a un europeo en una carretera.”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“—Pero dormirás en mi tienda. —¡Ay, no! —Entonces nos acompañarás a comer. —Dos veces ¡ay!”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“tentación e hizo una pausa en la puerta del vagón. —Buen viaje —le dijo a Billy. —Gracias, señor.”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“—Contigo, la necesitaba —dijo Sonja.”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“adivinaba Elene.”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“exhaustion”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“as commander”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“Nuestro espía de El Cairo es el más grande de todos los héroes.   ERWIN ROMMEL, septiembre de 1942”
― Ken Follett, La clave está en Rebeca

“again and opened the other. “This is my financing.”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca