The Bletchley Riddle Quotes

“What good is a story that can never be told?”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“I turn in a slow circle.
The sky is blue, but the city is the color of war.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed…by so many…to so few.’ ”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“There's something so deeply satisfying about the hushed sharing of information. What good is a story that can never be told?”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Perfection? But perfection is boring and forgettable. It’s the imperfections that I find interesting.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“ran countless brown envelopes”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“six or seven,”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Friends are like family. And sometimes the families we build are just as strong as those we’re born into.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Who is “her”? Gran? Viola? Originally, Viola was my nanny, but when I turned six, we had “the chat.” “Vi, you know I adore you, but really, who needs a nanny at six?” Viola of course agreed, and from that point she enthusiastically assumed the titles of housekeeper and best friend. Some say Viola reminds them of Mrs. Claus, but that’s judging a book by its cover. Imagine a cracking good baker meets a squat Agatha Christie. That’s Viola. My attempt to think of Viola instead of the warning posters fails. The words shout at me. Careless Talk Costs Lives. I swallow what I believe”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Passengers squint through the open window towards the sky. And suddenly, I'm angry, ready to call the Germans' bluff. They're manipulating the whole of Britain through threats and propaganda. They're not going to bomb us. They don't need to. They're controlling us through our own fear.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“I flop back onto the straw. "Goodness, codebreaking is positively exhausting.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“That story's not in any history book," he says. "Nor will it be-not for decades, in any case. Not till long after I'm gone.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“hat story's not in any history book," he says. "Nor will it be-not for decades, in any case. Not till long after I'm gone.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“At the time, her advice seemed silly, as I couldn't imagine anything that might keep me from acting at my own discretion. But the past months have shown that circumstances can be the thief of choice.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“But the man's a genius. People use that word as a synonym for great intelligence, but that's not what I mean. Speak with very intelligent people and you may be impressed; you may even be amazed. But you can follow their train of thought. You can see where their ideas came from.
It's not that way with a genius. It's not that way with Turning.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle