Book: Day Watch

First from his place rose Svetlana. Came to Zebulun. Stood a second, looking him in the face. Edgar suddenly realized, with a sinking heart that now the magician will hit the MAG. But she only said something to him. He turned and abruptly left.
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- I'm sorry... and that Svetlana said to Zabulon?
The Inquisitor must have good hearing. - On vampire face appeared a crooked grin. - Yes, almost anything. I would call it a curse, but the Light and curse do not know how... She said, "Let no one ever will love you."
Edgar nodded. Shrugged and said:
And it is not necessary.

... not always in a beautiful vessel - a good content.

Is the black pawn hates white people? No. Especially if the pawns stared each other in the forehead and quietly drink a beer.

- Holy? - grinned Edgar. Why are they Holy? They are soldiers.
- You know, Sometimes I think even the soldiers must remain first and foremost people. And people must be something sacred in the soul.
- First, you need to have a soul. And then Holy.

Anton loved Prague. Moreover, it is not understood, what's not to love. There are cities that from the first moment cause confusion, inhibit, and there are those that know how gently and quietly charming. Moscow, unfortunately, is neither to the first nor to the second type. Prague was like an old and wise magician that can pretend to be young, but does not see that needs maintaining your beauty at any age.

Day - time fetters and chains, responsibilities, and rules, and the Night - time Freedom.

The old, tedious, anxious world the villain - is it a partner for the rest of young witches?

The cobblestones of red square, remembering and unhurried step kings, and boots the revolutionary soldiers, and the tracks of the Soviet armored monsters, and the ranks of the may day pillars, seemed the epitome of the Moscow permanence. This city has stood and will stand, and nothing - not the squabbles of ordinary people, nor even the eternal swordplay patrols - can't shake this quiet grandeur.

In the morning there's never enough time to pack. You can get up at seven in the morning, and can be in six. But still - five minutes is not enough. I wonder why is this happening?

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain fleeting impulses.

It is only children find it difficult to answer, who is more like dad or mom, adult very easily turns...

- Betrayal is not small.
- Sometimes, Anton. More as it happens. Loyalty consists of a series of small and calculated betrayals. Trust me - I live in this world long enough to have time to verify this.
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- You're good at sophistry, and Zebulun. Surely you are much stronger than me. But because you call things different names, the essence of things does not change. Betrayal is always betrayal.
- Well, - unexpectedly easily agreed Zebulun. - Then give love. In essence, you have a choice between two betrayals, don't you understand?

My mother said that the men most importantly - reliability. Beautiful to be sure, and the more intelligent.

It's not a short skirt, I have long legs.