Quotes from Sergei Lukyanenko

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

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.

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.

Haggis" is a brand of nappies.' I said. 'They're good, we used them for our daughter.' 'Haggis is a kind of food too,' said Semyon, shaking his head. 'Although as far as taste goes, there's probably not much difference.

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

Because love stands above Darkness and Light. Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children." Because love is also Power. And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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