The Oligarch's Daughter Quotes

“Very American. You listen to propaganda. Watch silly movies”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“Then came yet more vodka. Paul was now blearily drunk. He’d learned that Russians don’t sip their vodka. They knock it back.”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“your glucose stores break down, all shivering stops . . . and then you go hypothermic and you die.”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“She swallowed. “But I came here as a little kid, around six.” She shrugged, seeming to signal that she was bored with the topic, didn’t want to talk about it. “That’s why your English is so good. Do you”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“could survive for three minutes without air, three weeks without food, but only three days without water—the Rule of Threes.”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“You have no idea how rotten the CIA is, do you? Your whole generation, you don’t give a shit. When the Cold War ended, the U.S. and Russia could have been allies. You know that? But we tricked Gorbachev. We promised him that if he agreed to unify Germany, NATO wouldn’t expand one inch east. Then, a few years later, NATO starts adding members. Oh, sorry about that little promise we made! You believed us? You poor schmucks. You second-rate country, you. Then, a few years later, we have the corrupt, alcoholic Boris Yeltsin—reviled by his people—running for reelection against a real, live Russian nationalist communist who’s about to win, right? But we can’t have that! The return of communism? No way! So what do we do? Lots of cold, hard U.S. cash gets dispensed liberally in Moscow to pay off whoever needs to be paid off. Whoever needs to dip their beaks. You probably never heard that two of Yeltsin’s aides were arrested with shoeboxes full of hundred-dollar bills, did you?” Paul shook his head.”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter

“pictures.”
― Joseph Finder, The Oligarch's Daughter