Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes.
That’s how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.
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?
Life consists of nothing but exceptions.
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.
When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It’s always destiny.
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.
Drinking beer in a children’s playground is an old Soviet tradition.
If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you’re already late.
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
When leaders betray their people and the people don’t overthrow them, it’s not just the leaders who should be blamed.
Great knowledge brings great sorrow.
We are our own gods and our own demons.
That’s the hardest thing of all–never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
Love is a great power, and such a strange power.
If it’s possible to do something, sooner or later someone’s going to do it.
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people – that’s not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.
The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.
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.
