Havana Bay Quotes

“What killed expert swimmers practicing underwater laps in pools was not a strangling on water but the soft oblivion of oxygen deprivation. At the end they no more than gently stirred, even if in the last lit cell in their brain they were still stroking powerfully ahead.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

“As a child, you must have spread your arms and put your head back and danced in the rain. You are drenched and clean and dizzy. If you are possessed, it’s like that.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

“He tried words written and transposed into numbers (even though the correct order of the Russian alphabet was a matter of controversy heading into the twenty-first century).”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

“Twenty-five years in the KGB and an agent used a turtle’s name as his password. Lenin wept.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

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― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

“Do you love boats as much as I do?” “No,” Osorio said. “Sailboats, fishing boats, rowboats?” “No.” “Maybe it’s a male characteristic. I think the appeal is the apparent irresponsibility of boats, the sense of floating anywhere, while the opposite is true. You have to work like a dog to keep from sinking.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay