Night Watch (Watch #1) QUOTES

21 " If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

23 " What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

25 " I’d stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It’s our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can’t reproduce—it "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

27 " „Ne. Sveta, jesi li ikada čula za analogiju... ljubav - to je cvijet?“
„Da.“
„Cvijet se može uzgojiti. A može se i kupiti. Ili se dobije kao poklon."
„Je l’ Anton kupio?“
„Ne“, rekoh suviše oštro, po svoj prilici, jesam... „Dobio je na poklon. Od sudbine.“
„I šta s tim? Je l' to ljubav?“
„Sveta, isječeno cvijeće je lijepo. Ali nije dugovječno. Ono ipak umire, pa makar i brižljivo
spušteno u kristalnu vazu sa sviježom vodom.“
„On se boji da voli“, zamišljeno reče Svetlana. „Je l' da? Ja se nisam bojala, zato što
nisam znala ovo... "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

29 " The number of people who will be horrified by what happens, who will spill tears of sympathy with others’ grief, will be very great. But there will be more, infinitely more, who will sit with their eyes glued greedily to their TV screens, who will take pleasure in other people’s suffering, feel glad that it passed their city by, and make jokes about the retribution meted out to the Third Rome . . . retribution from on high. You know that, my enemy. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

31 " He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

33 " How many of you there still are, girls and boys of various ages, raised by naïve parents in the sixties. How many of you there are, so unhappy, not knowing how to be happy. How I long to take pity on you, how I long to help you. To touch you through the Twilight—gently, with no force at all. To give you just a little confidence in yourself, just a tiny bit of optimism, a gram of willpower, a crumb of irony. To help you, so that you could help others. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

35 " 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 "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

37 " I’ll tell you what the problem is. You’re a young guy, you join the Watch, and you’re delighted with yourself. At last the whole world is divided up into black and white! Your dream for humanity has come true; now you can tell who’s good and who’s bad. So get this. That’s not the way it is. Not at all. "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)

39 " Tek sad shvativši ironiju slučaja, počeh ludački da se smejem. Mene su, objekat provokacije Tamnih, sakrili u žensko telo! U Telo šefove ljubavnice, stare kao sabor Bogorodične crkve u Parizu! "

― Sergei Lukyanenko , Night Watch (Watch #1)