In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And behave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 loudmouthed, hysterical madman suffering from progressive mental debility,’ Anna Tikhonov said derisively.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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

— Sergei Lukyanenko