“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
Source: The Day of the Triffids
Quotes from bookThe Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen name combinations drawn from his real name, this was the first novel published as "John Wyndham". It established him as an important writer and remains his best-known novel.
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
Source: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]
“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 12 - p.204
