Russian author (1968- )
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
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
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
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
At home the very walls lend you strength.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
New Watch
Life consists of nothing but exceptions.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
New Watch
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch