The Age of Ice Quotes

“We all know what weight sits on our souls, and no one is expected to ever forget the past—only to let it be past and focus on the present,”
― J.M. Sidorova, The Age of Ice

“why is it that in Russian the words betrayal and change have the same root? Was it because Russians changed far less than Englishmen and thus were more likely to regard change in and of itself as something negative, a betrayal?”
― J.M. Sidorova, The Age of Ice

“Truly, whatever St. Petersburg and Moscow may think about their geopolitical weight, both together plus everything before the Urals is but a small, brightly colored crest of feathers on the beast’s head, and only a few get to trudge the full length of its mammoth-bone spine, and peek in its permafrost eye as its third lid flashes the dark aperture open—only a few get to look into it and come home unaltered.”
― J.M. Sidorova, The Age of Ice

“Through the window slit the blaze shone like a giant magic lantern, orange through dusky blue; it was beautiful in its doom.”
― J.M. Sidorova, The Age of Ice