Book: Metro 2034. Page 1

- <...> Stupid to play for money.
Why would you then play?
- For the music. <...> For the people. Even no, not so. For what music does to people.

Yes, the whole modern civilization is <...> built on electricity. Will the energy runs out, rot the station and all.

Suppose there were things that she would never be able to fix things that cannot be undone, and words not to call back. But, this story was still a lot she could change, albeit didn't know how.

- More beautiful this city, I saw nothing. And you... judge a whole metro for one sleeper. Perhaps I describe it won't even be able to. Building above any rocks. Avenues, rushing like mountain streams. Unfading sky, glowing mist... a City of vanity, momentary - as any of its millions of residents. Crazy, chaotic. The whole consisting of combinations of species, built without any plans. Not eternal, because eternity is too cold and motionless. But so alive!

- Men that don't feel a woman's beauty? You need to provide and explain?
- I suppose so. And using this, we often deceive <...> the Paint is able to do with a woman's face miracles.

She had a way of answering the wrong question, which he pronounced aloud, and those that remained unasked.

Anyway, pictures of the departed can be considered a death mask, taken from their bodies, but not in his lifetime cast from the soul. And then, the images glow only slightly slower than those, which they captured.

Billions of lives ended at the same time. Billions of thoughts were left unspoken, dreams unfulfilled, billions of offense - Unforgiven.

Fear and terror is not one and the same. Fear exacerbates, makes to act, to invent. Horror paralyzes the body, stops the thoughts, deprives human beings.

And science fiction writers, and scientists came from the fact that humanity is rationally and consistently. As if it consisted of several billion lazy, frivolous, fond of personalities, and was a hive endowed with collective intelligence and common will. As if taking over space exploration, it's going to take them seriously and not give up halfway, after playing and switching to electronics, and from electronics to biotechnology, in anything and without achieving any impressive results. Except, perhaps, nuclear physics.

... to deprive people of life, do not need big power.

When you are twenty and murder, and death are much legkomyslennoe, and all of life seems a game that, if anything, you can start anew.

There is nothing more valuable than human life.

...And they knew that it would be - because of me. They all knew. These people were able to see, and the fate of each. You don't even know who we hand picked... He told us the last time you smiled... Sent... Gave them another chance. And we... I doomed, and you did. Because we are. Because the monster...