Robert Harris, Pompeii Quotes

People perish. Books are immortal.

And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

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