“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.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“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.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“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!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Это очень правильно — приезжать в чужой город под утро. На поезде, на самолёте — всё равно. День начинается будто с чистого листа.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!"
"I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense...”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“We'll get into the plane and you'll have a cup of coffee, even a sip of brandy is permissible. And you'll think. Think hard. So hard I can hear your brains creaking. And it will be very good if by the time we reach Edinburgh you already know how to get the Crown of All Things. Because we don't have any time to spare. Only twelve hours until the bomb goes off."
"You bastard," I said.
"No, I'm a highly effective personnel manager," Edgar said, with a smile.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“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!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“In Russia a café like this would have been closed down in a moment. In Europe they would have put the owner in prison. In the USA the proprietor would have been hit with an absolutely massive fine. And in Japan the boss of an establishment like this would have committed seppuku out of a sense of shame.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise— Foma”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“To put it simply, magic that is controlled by reason is more like a knife than a grenade launcher.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Life in death and death in life. Could”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don’t have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they run along beside gloomy factory buildings, sometimes along the railway lines or main highways, sometimes even beside a park or ravine that has survived through some oversight by the municipal authorities.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“That’s the paradox, people aren’t interested in reading about settling on Mars or flying to the stars—all the things that people really can achieve, but Others can’t. But they dream about becoming magicians, rushing into battle with a big sharp sword…. If only they knew what the wounds from a real sword look like!…What does all this mean? That a medieval world in which magic exists is the one most attractive to people!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“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!” Alisher”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“The hiding place is believed to contain the Crown of All Things,” said Lermont. “Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? But somehow I think that the Crown of All Things is really the End of All Things.” Semyon”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“Until you become wiser, you won’t become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won’t master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won’t go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by”—he frowned—“the”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
“By oppression’s woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Robert”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from The Last Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko
Born place: in Karatau, Kazakhstan
Born date April 11, 1968
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“There were days that I really wished Evie had been there so that I could discuss my undying love for Lucien Knight, my hatred for girls named Bekah and Nan, and my secret desire to have Remington Tate’s babies, but instead I wrote down my thoughts about the books in letters to her.”
― Erin Noelle, quote from Euphoria
“The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Grace of Kings
“On the average, a person who cares for other people, for his country, or for mankind, is a happier man than one who does not; but of what use is it to preach this doctrine to a man who cares for nothing but his own ease, or his own pocket? He cannot care for other people if he would. It is like preaching to the worm who crawls on the ground, how much better it would be for him if he were an eagle.”
― John Stuart Mill, quote from On Liberty and Other Essays
“Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.”
― Victor J. Stenger, quote from God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
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