Mountain of the Dead
Jeremy Bates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“their old comrade on the sleigh—a Lithuanian named Stanislav Velikyavichus who Zina had nicknamed “Grandpa Slava”—said, “Can you smell that?” Igor sniffed the air, wondering if someone had broken wind. “Smell what?” “That.” Igor didn’t smell anything. The confused expressions on the faces of the others told him they didn’t smell anything either. Georgy said, “Can you elaborate, comrade?” “That,” he repeated, inhaling deeply. “The trees, the snow, the night.” Zina said, “You mean the taiga?” Velikyavichus nodded. “That’s the smell of freedom—appreciate it whenever you can. You never know when it might be taken away.”
“one side, stiff from rigor mortis. The image”
“didn’t know if I wanted to punch the guy or kiss him.”
“creeping through a twisting maze of pitch-black tunnels that had never seen sunlight.”
“but her memory would become manageable, something I could recollect when I wanted to, not something that tormented me every hour of every day.”
“armchair conspiracy theorists would manipulate to suit their paradigm.”
“a nightmare I couldn’t quite remember fleeing farther and farther into the dim recesses of my mind.”
“Zina’s eyes settled on Yuri Doroshenko. He sat across the aisle from her, looking stoically out his window. That was so like him. He would probably spend the entire train ride watching the snowy scenery pass and not say a word to anyone. It wasn’t that he didn’t get along with the others. He did. He was simply reserved and comfortable with silence. This quiet strength was one of the qualities she had admired most about him when they had dated.”
“Zina took over—and the children fell immediately in love with her. This did not surprise Kolya. Not only was she beautiful with strong yet feminine features and penetrating eyes, but she also had an outgoing personality and a heartwarming laugh that always made her a pleasure to be around.”
“You just had to look at the pristine forests north of California, and at the great swaths of undeveloped land in Canada. Not to mention the endless expanses of Siberia and the impenetrable jungles of China and the ancient mountain ranges of Nepal—and beneath all of this, crisscrossing the planet like veins beneath the skin, thousands and thousands of miles of caves.”
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