Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes

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.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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?

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.The common good and the individual good rarely coincide...Sure, I know, it's true.But some truths are probably worse than lies.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

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! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ 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.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

An assassin can be found for every president. And 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. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

The laws of nature are not intelligent,’ I replied. ‘The force of gravity is not intelligent. Electricity is not intelligent. A savage looking at a television might assume that it’s a sapient being, but we—’‘A sapient being? Looking at a television these days, the only possible assumption is that it’s a loud-mouthed, hysterical madman suffering from progressive mental debility,’ Anna Tikhonovna said derisively.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

People don't usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words convey truth. That when someone hears the word red he will think of a ripe raspberry and not a pool of blood. That the word love will evoke Shakespeare's sonnets and not the erotic films of Playboy. And they find themselves baffled when the word they've spoken doesn't evoke the right response.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

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