Stalin's Ghost Quotes

“Slowly, reluctantly, Arkady’s arm gave way. He remembered a dream in which he had failed everybody. He didn’t recall the details but the sense was the same.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost

“Arkady stood in the dim illumination from the street, putting himself in a classic dilemma. Look for cigarettes where they most likely were or search where the light was best.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost

“Arkady drove around to see the city while daylight was left, because Russian maps were one thing and reality often something else. There were detours, road work, one-way streets, guarded streets, streets that did not exist, all sorts of surprises.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost

“The mafia was getting conservative; now that they had seized and established their separate territories they were defenders of the status quo. Their children would be bankers and their children would be poets, something like that. Count on it, in fifty years, a golden age of poetry.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost