Black Knight in Red Square Quotes

“From time to time, in spite of her training, she did fall into deep sleep for a few minutes, and the dream did come, the dream of circles within circles that turned to a spiral of wire on which she was skewered. She twisted downward on that spiral toward the ever narrowing center hidden in darkness, below which she would fall off the wire and plummet into the void. She ground her teeth furiously, awakening herself.”
― Stuart M. Kaminsky, Black Knight in Red Square

“You have acted?” Bintz asked. Rostnikov shrugged. “To be a Russian is to act, yes?” supplied Bintz, leaning forward.”
― Stuart M. Kaminsky, Black Knight in Red Square

“It was a typical Soviet ploy. People were forever quoting Lenin, much of the time with a great deal of creativity, knowing that even scholars had a difficult time identifying quotations from the mass of Lenin’s writing and speeches. Rostnikov”
― Stuart M. Kaminsky, Black Knight in Red Square