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

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

— 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

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

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko