Lukyanenko Bibliography Quotes

#1. What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance? #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#2. When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#3. 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. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#4. Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. 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. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#6. 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. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#7. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#8. There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory! #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#9. Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#10. One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#11. Life in death and death in life. Could #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#12. I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#13. To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#14. Love is a great power, and such a strange power... #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#15. 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: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: "I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!"' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown! #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#16. Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#17. The evening before, the sky had been different, with clouds drifting over the city, and the air had been filled with the scent of a chilly, damp wind and snow that hadn't fallen yet. I'd felt like snuggling down deep into my armchair, sticking something cheerful and moronic - something American - in the VCR, taking a sip of cognac and just falling sleep. But #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#18. at home the very walls lend you strength, #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#19. An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#20. If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#21. What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!"
"I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#22. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#23. If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. #Quote by Alan Dundes

#24. That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#25. When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material. #Quote by Andrea Barrett

#26. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#27. Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#28. 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. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#29. The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; ... #Quote by Bernard Bailyn

#30. The land preserves clues for a long time, but the sea has a short memory. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#31. That's the hardest thing of all
never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#32. Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#33. Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best, cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they've been loured at by seconds. Besides, an idea isn't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test. The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time #Quote by Julian Barnes

#34. Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#35. There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. 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. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#36. She had never liked people who spoke too familiarly upon first meeting. There ought to be a little bit more formality. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#37. The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do. #Quote by Shannon L. Alder

#38. What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#39. Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark ... #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#40. After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#41. Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment
there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#42. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#43. But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#44. Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don't have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they run along beside gloomy factory buildings, sometimes along the railway lines or main highways, sometimes even beside a park or ravine that has survived through some oversight by the municipal authorities. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#45. Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography. #Quote by David Levering Lewis

#46. I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko