SERGEI LUKYANENKO QUOTES II

Russian author (1968- )

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

The Last Watch

Tags: cars


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

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch


The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch


If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Day Watch


Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

Tags: action


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.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

New Watch

Tags: tyranny


This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

interview with Paul Semel, December 2, 2014


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.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

Tags: truth


Where there's black, even grey looks white.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Twilight Watch


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

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

New Watch


How wonderful it would be if everything could always be as clear and simple as it used to be when you were twelve years old, or twenty years old. If there really were only two colors in the world: black and white. But even the most honest and ingenuous cop, raised on the resounding ideal of the stars and stripes, has to understand sooner or later that there's more than just Darkness and Light out on the streets. There are understandings, concessions, agreements. Informers, traps, provocations. Sooner or later the time comes when you have to betray your own side, plant bags of heroin in pockets, and beat people on the kidneys--carefully, so there are no marks.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch


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

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Last Watch

Tags: women


We are our own gods and our own demons.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Twilight Watch

Tags: god


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.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Twilight Watch

Tags: vampires


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

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

Tags: pain


I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

interview with Paul Semel, December 2, 2014

Tags: Isaac Asimov


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.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch


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.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Day Watch


The simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Day Watch


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

Night Watch

Tags: evil