New Watch Quotes

“When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“Я думаю, что существо, у которого есть чувство юмора, не может быть совсем уж плохим.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“Пророк вещает истину. То, что неизбежно. Зачем знать неизбежное, Антон? Если неизбежное плохо, то не стоит расстраиваться раньше времени. А если хорошо — пусть лучше будет приятная неожиданность. Многие знания — многие печали.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“Isn’t that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“Анна Тихоновна была женщиной старой закваски. Поговаривали, что если не при свидетелях, то наша единственная учительница пьёт чай из блюдца. Зелёных чаёв она не признавала, ещё более презирала травяные настои, по недоразумению называемые чаями. Чай в её представлении должен был быть чёрным, как дёготь, и крепким, как совесть грешника. Ну или наоборот. Чёрным, как совесть, и крепким, как дёготь.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“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

“The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The New Watch

“Ама че смешен е този маниер на съвременните влюбени - отиват на моста, целуват се, и слагат катинар - сякаш вече са заключили любовта си.
А любовта не бива да се заключва. Тя не ни е дадена за това”
― Сергей Лукяненко, New Watch

“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

“Drinking beer in a children’s playground is an old Soviet tradition.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“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 loud-mouthed, hysterical madman suffering from progressive mental debility,’ Anna Tikhonovna said derisively.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“Much knowledge, much sorrow...”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“THERE’S A SIMPLE way to understand what a blind man feels in this life: close your eyes and try to do something. Something ordinary, not difficult. Something you normally do anyway ‘without looking’ – take a spoon out of a drawer in a table, light a cigarette, put a CD in a music centre. It only takes five minutes at the most to understand everything and know that you’ll never forget it.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The New Watch

“We are Others We serve different powers But in the Twilight there is no difference between the absence of darkness and the absence of light Our struggle is capable of destroying the world We conclude the Great Treaty of truce Each side shall live according to its own laws Each side shall have its own right We limit our rights and our laws We are Others We create the Night Watch So that the forces of Light might monitor the forces of Darkness We are Others We create the Day Watch So that the forces of Darkness might monitor the forces of Light Time will decide for us”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The New Watch

“And no doubt you’re quite happy for her to slave away at the cooker, wash the nappies, get no sleep for nights on end”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The New Watch

“What has to happen to us before we understand that we have to take good care of everything we have, of every tree in our boundless forests, every little stream that isn’t even marked on the maps, every village with only five households, every soldier drafted into the army, every man in the street toiling under his dreary daily burden? What will it take to change us?”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New 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, Новый Дозор

“The way people behave depends on the basic moral tests and norms in a society. Naturally, the Khmer Rouge, Al-Qaeda terrorists, respectable middle-class Europeans, and, say, members of the Komosol in the 1930's, would behave quite differently in identical situations. But that wouldn't change the essential point. The ration of altruists and egoists, even among Benedictine monks and members of the Gestapo, is the same. It's just that their altruism and egotism are expressed differently.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Новый Дозор

“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, Новый Дозор

“the whole problem is that the regime is a reflection of society. Crooked and grotesque, but still a reflection. And as long as most of the citizens of a country—if they happened to gain power—would steal and regard themselves as better than other people, no remoralization of the ruling circles will change anything. Those politicians who acquire a conscience will leave. And new ones without consciences will take their places. It’s people who have to change, society—”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“I’m sorry,” I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. “I’m sorry.” “What for?” “For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch

“Fuck your fucking mother!' Gesar howled, twisting the wheel round. In a moment of genuine terror only the Russian language could convey the true depths of his feelings. It made me feel proud of our great Russian culture!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The New Watch

“at home the very walls lend you strength,”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, New Watch