Quotes from Martin Cruz Smith

Do you love boats as much as I do?" "No," Osorio said. "Sailboats, fishing boats, rowboats?" "No." "Maybe it's a male characteristic. I think the appeal is the apparent irresponsibility of boats, the sense of floating anywhere, while the opposite is true. You have to work like a dog to keep from sinking.

You never gave me an answer,' Anna said. "Which do you think I am, insane or a tramp?' 'Do you want to see me again?' Joe asked. 'Yes.' 'Then you must be insane.

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

The decree against parasitism was originally formulated for Gypsies, then broad-mindedly expanded to include dissidents and all sorts of profiteers

The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.

La triangulación es el método del cartógrafo. Si conoce la posición y la altura de dos lugares y ve un tercero, puede establecer su correspondiente posición y altura. Los mapas son eso: triángulos invisibles.

Moscow swam in color. Hazy floodlights of Red Square mixed with the neon of casinos in Revolution Square. Light wormed its way from the underground mall in the Manezh. Spotlights crowned new towers of glass and polished stone, each tower capped by a spire. Gilded domes still floated around the Garden Ring, but all night earth-movers tore at the old city and dug widening pools of light to raise a modern, vertical Moscow more like Houston or Dubai.

Tolstoy wrote, 'God knows the truth, but waits.

La suciedad y la inmoralidad andan juntas. La mugre engendra enfermedad.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know.' He laughed. 'If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.'" — Arkady Renko from Gorky Park

Le tiene miedo a Bill? — Por supuesto que sí. Es violento, y ni la mitad de tonto de lo que parece.

Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.

Odiaba las minas de carbón. El oro era noble e inerte. El carbón, que había sido materia viva, continuaba vivo, exhalando gas mientras se transformaba en roca.

Twenty-five years in the KGB and an agent used a turtle's name as his password. Lenin wept.

cuanto más profunda está la veta de carbón, más inflamable es éste. Sin embargo, cuanto más pforundo, cuanto más duro es el carbón, más necesario se torna el uso de explosivos.

Siempre pensé que en tiempo de paz la profesión del soldado era pasar las enfermedades venéreas.

Por ese motivo la minería era un arte y una ciencia, se dijo; porque los mineros morían jóvenes, como los artistas.

La verdad es que un minero que no piensa que está trabajando en su propia sepultura es un tonto.

Durante años me pasé diciendo lo mismo, o cosas peores. Porque me sentía abandonado, aunque ella no hubiera podido evitarlo, muriera o no. Me ayuda oír sus palabras, porque compruebo lo estúpidas y venenosas que son. Sobre todo estúpidas.

She pointed to a poster on the casino that showed a mother telling her son, "I Would Rather You Came Home a Dead Patriot Than a Live Traitor." Maria said, "No mother on earth would say that. This worship of death is sick.

Outer conformity masks inner rebellion. That's you.

Interrogation is largely a process of rebirth done in the clumsiest fashion possible, a system in which the midwife attempts to deliver the same baby a dozen times in a dozen different ways.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

The smell of flowers was overwhelming. They were all imported, some presumably from vast distances. Arkady saw orchids, chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, roses, and tuberoses, splashes of color against winter's gray.