Author of quotes: Dmitry Glukhovsky. Page 14

People were not in danger. People are tenacious like cockroaches. But civilization... It would save.

Faith was just a stick that supported the man, not allowing him to stumble, and helping to rise to his feet if he stumbled and fell. When he was little, his laugh stepfather's story about how the monkey took the stick in his hands and became man. Since then she has not released, that not more upright until the end, he thought now.

The one who has the courage and patience all my life to stare into the darkness, the first to see the sliver of light.

The difference between them was that the journey on the metro and Artyom forced to see the world as if through a multifaceted prism, and Ulman his harsh life has taught to look at things just through the scope of a sniper rifle.

Dilapidated and corroded for decades of acid rain, the skeletons of the low houses looked on the pilgrims of the empty eyes of broken Windows.

I once read that Kalashnikov was proud of his invention, that his machine is the most popular in the world. Said, happy that thanks to its design the frontiers of the Motherland safe. Don't know if I this car came up, I'd probably have gone mad. Just think, with the help of your design is done most of the killings on earth! It's even worse than being the inventor of the guillotine

It seemed that life was over ten steps away, in front there was nothing else, only a dead black void, to respond to the cry of the deceptively dull echo.

Wake Up, Hunter! No one will write about you book: "the Story of a real man", no one will sing your will to live, your hypertrophic instinct of self-preservation... How long will you last on mushrooms, multivitamins and a pig? Give it up, sapiens! You're not the king of nature! You overthrew! No, you don't have to die immediately, no one insists. Popolzai more in agony, choking in their own faeces... But you know, sapiens: you are obsolete! Evolution, the laws of which you have learned, already made your new round off, and you are not the last step, not the crown of creation. You're a dinosaur. Have to give way to a new, more perfect species. You should not be selfish. The game is over, it's time to play others. Your time is up. You extinct. And let the future civilization scratching their heads over why the sapiens are extinct. Although it's unlikely someone interested...

And the stars! How could a person who has never seen the stars, to imagine what is infinity, when, perhaps, the notion of infinity appeared once in humans, is inspired by the night sky? Millions of shining lights, silver nails driven into a dome of blue velvet...

It often happens that a thought, seemingly in a dream a brilliant, if revival turns out to be a meaningless combination of words.

If I sleep and Wake up, as the brightness of the experience rapidly fades, and now, remembering, it is difficult to distinguish fantasy from genuine incidents. They become as faded as the dreams, as thoughts of the future or a possible past.

Break your watch and you will see what will become of the time, it's very interesting. It will change, you never know. It will cease to be fragmented, broken into segments, hours, minutes, seconds. The mercury: crush it, and it will immediately heal, regain their integrity and uncertainty. People have tamed him, put him on a chain from his pocket watches and stopwatches, and for those who keeps it on the chain, it flows equally. But try to free him - and you will see: for different people it flows differently, for someone it is slow and drawling, as measured smoked a cigarette, inhales and exhales, for some races, and it can be measured only lived lives.

It was a real war, with military operations, environments, and breakthroughs environments, with their exploits, with its generals, with its heroes and its traitors.

I found myself pelted with cigarette butts on the landing, lined with small brown tiles. Before me was a boring door glued to her plastic sign white with black letters, the ones that in clinics usually write "Physician" or "Optometrist".
This was billed as "GOD".
I knocked on the door.