The Dead Bank Diary Quotes

“I can smell the street air and say that the market has changed. It smells also sharply as smells the fresh bread from a bakery in the frost.”
― Anna Schlegel, The Dead Bank Diary

“I was out of work while all around smelled millions, even the air outside. It was an unforgettable smell of public debt, oilfields, gold, bank guarantees, diamond ... I wanted to breathe in the air of easy cash Moscow, to revel and roll in this air. I can feel the smell of money in the wind on my face. This air was used to make up funds overnight, to make a fortune, to go rack and ruin and grew rich again. It was going free across the wreckage of the sold out Soviet empire.”
― Anna Schlegel, The Dead Bank Diary