Pyetr Quotes

“Pyetr Kochevikov believed in human weakness far more than he believed in wizards, human weakness being everywhere evident and sorcery being a matter, like the Little Old Man who should ward the stables, of people’s absolute will to believe other people’s responsibility.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“Let it rain. Father Sky missed us with his lightnings. He’s having a tantrum. Rich men are like that.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“He saw shadows move on the ceiling, like scampering cats in the rafters, strange shapes like creatures lurking and slithering and pausing again.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“For the rest of his life he feared he was going to dream about things he did not understand.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“His confidence and his courage were the only assets he had ever had in life, the fact that Pyetr Kochevikov would make a try while everyone else was hesitating. For a man who had a knowledge of the odds for his only inheritance from his father, the existence of unknowables and uncertainties threaded through every situation, was a terrible revelation.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“Nothing’s hopeless except never trying.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Rusalka

“Illusion and compulsions had less power over him than a wizard-until the source of them come close enough to lay material hands on him.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Chernevog

“Both the wizards he loved had warned him outright that loving him, that loving anything at all was dangerous to them and everything around them.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Chernevog