Kernik Quotes

“He had known power and the wine of sorcery intoxicated him.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Kernik Volk was cunning and clever; he said little; he was chiselled and burnished by suppressed unknowable desires.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“He stretched his crayoned mouth, and nodded, and there stood all his actors in a line, though somehow it was still hard to count them, still difficult to be sure how many of them there were.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Vile, atrocious, bestial he might be, but in need he was, and she could reply to that need. Her misguided heart warmed and opened, and she took Kernik into her arms and home.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“You could never catch him in anything, yet it always seemed as if he had just been committing some unnatural and unwholesome act, or was just about to be as soon as your back was turned.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Like a shadow he went, and the rising sun cast a second shadow from him on the rough ground.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Kernik lay in blackness, and fiery claws rent him, and a silver beak gouged him, but they rent and gouged him with a sort of love, and with a sort of love he suffered them.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Let the city be ready for the play to end all plays, and the show to stop all shows.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Oh, yes, Kernik the Clever Showman was to be deified. Never in all the world had such a play been known.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar