Undermoney Quotes

“We’ve always been a violent country, thought Volk, ruled by successive bands of ruthless autocrats, each crew more oppressive than the one they supplanted: three hundred years of pillaging by Romanovs, eighty-odd years of totalitarian terror under Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, Bolsheviks, and Communists, and, for the past three decades, first under Yeltsin, then Putin, a return to something like a monarchy, now rebranded as “democracy,” but in reality a criminal organization masquerading as a government, or, maybe, a government masquerading as a criminal organization; historians would debate it for years.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“awkward, the slightly odd and obsessive. The boys—and they were mostly boys—who sat in the back row not to mock, disrupt, or distract, but because they were absorbed by their own thoughts or reciting Dr. Who and the Daleks in their heads, from memory. They might have gotten straight A’s, or, just as likely, flunked out”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“time,”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“They don't want to be grown-ups. They're so rich they don't think they have to get old. They lived down here when they were twenty-three and they want to relive their bohemian days, except not crammed into a tiny apartment with roommates who never flush the toilet. I didn't have bohemian days. I worked.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“In their reveries, they had all been superheroes. But recently, Don had begun to question that, They had been anything but heroic. More like feral, frightened animals - jacked up on adrenaline, hash, and uppers - getting by on firepower, cunning and ruthlessness. Killing without thought, surviving. Making mistakes, sometimes pushing much too far.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“The only way to make anything yours in Putin’s Russia was to steal it.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“Sometimes it’s best not to let your opponent even know you’re at war. Much better that, when they figure it out, it’s too late.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney