Blackout Quotes

“What is the value of being a criminal investigator in a state run by criminals ?”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“There was another pause. ‘I must say, I found the contents of your bookshelves fascinating.’ ‘So you said. I like to read what interests me.’ ‘That’s fine, until you no longer can. You can’t be blind to the party’s direction of travel. They won’t be satisfied until they have determined precisely what we can read, what we can think, what we can feel.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“Like so many Germans, he had regarded Hitler and his followers as posturing buffoons peddling obvious lies. Even as their influence spread, like mould in a Petri dish, it was hard to take them seriously. Until it was too late.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“It is a dark and perilous path. Be wary of it unless you are certain it is what you want. In the meantime, all a good man can do is be true to his conscience and survive.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“A word of advice. We live in uncertain times. Take what pleasure you can from this world at every opportunity.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“It’s like the country has been taken over by the kind of people who underperformed at school and refuse to read anything more complicated than the headlines of the gutter press. Anyway, enough of them. Let’s not think about it.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“Many academics were still quietly opposing the new order. After the removal of Jewish lecturers and the sacking of the more outspoken, the rest had ceased to be vocal in public but continued their resistance by more subtle means. Denying a party member a teaching post was one of them.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“More worrying still, it had changed the curriculum in schools, indoctrinated children and turned some against their parents.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“That might be true. But politicians are interested in you. That’s the way things are now, sir. And you’ll have to pick a side one day. Sooner rather than later. If you haven’t already.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“A few deaths was a crime, a multitude merely a statistic, as someone had once said, more or less.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout