Ekaterina Sedia Quotes

• We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Regret, Skulls, Decision

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• The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Regret, Decision, Trying

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• You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Dirty, Sides, Footprint

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• The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

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  Helping Others, Soul, Want

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• The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Beautiful, Fashion, Voice

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