Gypsy in Amber Quotes

“Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber

“Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber

“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber

“Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber

“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half million Gypsies who drew breath but also the countless Gypsies who had gone before, restless spirits still wandering through cities and deserts, still real.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber