Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

At home the very walls lend you strength.

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?

Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

All we can do is try not to fall.

Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

I am fat, lazy and kind.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

We are our own gods and our own demons.

Love is a great power, and such a strange power.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.