In Siberia Quotes

“Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the whole Earth, yet this is all it leaves for certain in the mind. A bleak beauty, and an indelible fear.”
― Colin Thubron, In Siberia

“Why can’t people ever record the good things, the everyday things? If there were ordinary accounts of the camps people would understand how we couldn’t always weep, how we came up out of the mines into the wash-house, singing. You’re a writer, aren’t you, so why don’t you write that? How we smiled a little, danced and sang a little. Because people must live in hope….”
― Colin Thubron, In Siberia