Quotes from Sergei Lukyanenko

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

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

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

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

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

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.

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!

I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.

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

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

You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.

This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!

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

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.

after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.

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

As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.

But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

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

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!

If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed.