John Rhodes > Quotes

“In addition, RAF fighters had been unable to protect the skies over Belgium, Holland, and France against the Luftwaffe, and there was no reason to imagine that the formula had changed.”
― John Rhodes, Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain

“Shaux wondered idly whether they'd ever invent an RDF system small enough to fit in an aircraft.”
― John Rhodes, Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain

“sleepy men contemplating the new day with various causes and levels of uncertainty.”
― John Rhodes, Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain

“He stretched his limbs again, searching for an inner point of balance at which he could face the potential dangers of the day with equanimity, a fulcrum of fatalism in which he could conquer fear by abandoning hope.”
― John Rhodes, Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain

“Lookee here, ma'am, at these sad lines of hog manure," he said, jabbing at the rows of formulas. "Up here you created an elegant formula-tion that stands on its own. Then you seem to doubt your work, even though it's obviously correct, because you proceed to pour all kinds of doo-doo on it until it dies of asphyxia at the bottom of the page." "But it's not hog manure ..." "Ma'am, I grew up on a hog farm. Never, ever doubt a North Carolina hog farmer's ability to recognize and categorize excrement.”
― John Rhodes, Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain