Hotel Florida Quotes

“There can be no compromise, no truce,” the general told Allen then. “I shall advance. I shall take the capital. I will save Spain from marxism at whatever cost.” “That means,” Allen asked, for clarification, “that you will have to shoot half Spain?” Franco smiled. “I said whatever the cost.” The Spanish Civil War had begun.”
― Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

“how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.”
― Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War