Ella Leya Quotes

• My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.

  Ella Leya

  Keys, Blue, Hands

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

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  Profound, Vices, Desert

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• Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

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  Empathy, Morality, Knows

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.135, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

  Ella Leya

  Knives, Tongue, Turkish

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.168, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

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  Artist, Unique, Messages

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.113, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

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  Destiny, Stubborn, Way

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• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  Ella Leya

  Dirty, Humanity, Shadow

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

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  Tea, Noses, Conversation

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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