Pelagia and the Red Rooster Quotes

“Yakov Mikhailovich, as we have already said, believed fervently in the power of the human intellect. There are no insoluble problems, only incompetent problem solvers.”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel

“Remember what it says in Matthew: And false prophets shall abound, and they shall deceive many’” “And from the multiplication of lawlessness, love shall grow cold in many,” said Pelagia, continuing the apostolic citation. Dolinin started and gave the nun a strange look, as if he had just heard those words for the first time, or perhaps had never really thought about their meaning before.”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel

“But Pelagia didn’t wait for the second circle: with a sickening squeal, she thrust the two needles straight through the cloth of the bag into the murderer’s only eye. At the final moment she suddenly felt frightened: What if she hadn’t remembered which eye was the natural one? However, to judge”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel

“At the festival of Easter, when we remember the Passion of Christ, the rooster signifies the Resurrection. Are you aware that the Cross, now the generally accepted symbol of Christianity, appeared only relatively recently, in the mid-fifth century? Until that time, Christians used other symbols, very frequently a rooster, which is an image of the Son of God Who came to awaken mankind.”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel

“Don’t count too much on God,” said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son’s optimism. “He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel

“Mitrofanii frowned—he found women’s tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.”
― Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel