Matthew Ishu

“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

“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, Night Watch

“When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it,”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“he who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it’s repeated, the stakes are doubled.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four