Quote by Martin Cruz Smith Download Open image ““Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.”” — Martin Cruz Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“At the gates, prickly rolls of barbed wire sagged with middle-aged disappointment.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“To think of how many times I have carted a lingering drunk out of my house in a wheelbarrow and leaned him up against… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
“To me, sympathy was like alcohol on a scraped knee. It didn't really heal anything; it just made the injury sting.” — Jill S. Alexander Copy Share Image
“I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis.” — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.” — Olen Steinhauer Copy Share Image
“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god.… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
