Quotes from Twilight Watch

“That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“We are our own gods and our own demons”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“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.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“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.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.
People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: "I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!"' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“В России так заведено — в Сибирь али ссылают, али сами бегут.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“This one swears like a trooper-- he's a bad boy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Я не за и не против.

Я не добро и не зло.

Тебе со мной, моя Родина,

до фига повезло!

Твои змеиные кольца —

мой дом, моя западня.

Я буду ползать под солнцем,

Под этим чертовым солнцем,

Отсюда — досюда, отсюда — досюда.

Отсюда до Судного дня.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Что со мной?

Мои ли это мысли?

Нет, не надо притворяться. Мои, не чужие. Никто мне в голову не забрался, даже Высший Иной не смог бы это сделать незамеченным.

Это я — такой, какой есть.

Бывший человек.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Но мы не верим ни в богов, ни в Бога. Мы сами — свои собственные боги и свои собственные демоны.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when they don't want it. Avoid relapsing into contemptuous cynicism and imagining that you are pure and perfect. That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
-Gesar”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“We are our own gods and our own demons.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“I put on a suit, then changed into a jeans and a checked shirt, then thought 'to hell with it!' and got into my shorts and a black T-shirt with an inscription that said: 'My friend was clinically dead, but all he brought me from the next world was this T-shirt!' I might look like a German tourist, but at least I would retain the semblance of a holiday mood in front of Gesar.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

“Where there's black, even grey looks white,”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Twilight Watch

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