Red Square Quotes

“How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“I can be American. I can whistle and chew gum.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“He’d never thought before of what a catalog of experiences his exile had brought to him, how unique and beautiful they were, what clear evidence that on no day could a man be sure he should not open his eyes.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“I’m sorry, I don’t have any jam. I remember that Russians love their tea with jam.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Why do people drink? A Latin to be amorous, an Englishman to unbend. Russians were more direct, Arkady thought; they drank to be drunk, which was what he wanted to be now.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Federov marched back to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. “Empty. You know, you’re such a typical Soviet cripple. You’re so unused to food that you can’t even buy it when it’s all around you.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Munich was still unreal to him. He had the sudden apprehension not that he was walking in a dream, but that he was someone’s nightmare visiting the real world.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

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― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Who was right?” Polina asked. Now that, Arkady thought, was a question asked only by the very young.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“A blackened light bulb with a broken filament, three rubles. Why, when a new bulb was forty kopecks? Since there were no new light bulbs for sale in the stores, you took this used bulb to your office, replaced the bulb in the lamp on your desk and took the good bulb home so that you wouldn’t live in the dark.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“It’s funny, I deal with men who would slit their mother’s throat and are embarrassed by the concept of profit.” Rudy became serious. “Arkady, if you can just imagine profit apart from crime, then you have business.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square

“How did the distillers decide which part of their production was vodka and which was rubbing alcohol? Or did it matter? While”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square