Hotel Ukraine Quotes

“Soviet times they had called it the tallest building in Moscow on the grounds that Siberia could be seen from its basement.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“For your own good, Arkady thought. If there were four more hateful words in the language, he had yet to come across them.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“Spring always brought the highest body count, not because more people were killed then, but because the warm weather uncovered any number of corpses that had been hidden under the snow.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“Once more, Arkady thought, you needed only one book to really understand Russia. Not Tolstoy or Pushkin, not Dostoyevsky or Lermontov, but one his mother used to read to him as a child: Through the Looking-Glass, otherwise known as Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“Someone—another world leader, whose name I can’t remember—asked him what the Russian economy was like. ‘Good,’ Yeltsin replied. The other leader asked if he could expand on that a bit. ‘Of course,’ Yeltsin said. ‘Not good.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“close and sometimes distant but always somehow attached.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“What utter bullshit,” said Victor.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine