"The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovarâ€™s crooked nose."

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

Ella Leya

#Tea Quotes #Noses Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
“There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.”
“Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.”
“Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.”
“No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.”
“I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.”
“A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .”

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