7 Quotes by Tom Pollock

Because this is Beth's fight, and that's what fathers do for their little girls,' he said.

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

Seventeen elementary particles. They make up everything in the universe from black holes to brain cells. When you get right down to it, everything’s made of the same building blocks. What makes the difference is how many, the pattern of how they’re arranged; what makes the difference, always, is numbers. Pg 297

A Caesar shift is about the simplest code in the world – perfect for the Roman emperor who’s long on secrets but short on time. To make one, you just write out the alphabet, A to Z, then pick a secret phrase… and write it out underneath the first few letters of your alphabet, dropping any repeated letters… Pg 27

There’s no such thing as plain text; there are only codes you understand and codes you don’t. Pg 234

We know you sometimes have a tricky time adjusting to stress.

Sometimes, courage is just knowing what you’re more afraid of.