H.D.A. Roberts > Quotes

“But what really worried me, what made me concerned for just who I was starting to become, was the fact that I didn't even slightly regret it.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Heart's Darkness

“at least I have the decency to pretend to be modest”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Magician's Brother

“when English rolled around. 'Romeo and Juliette' this term. Allow me to summarise: Love, cock-up, bad communication, sad ending; waste of time that could have been spent reading 'The Hobbit'.”
― HDA Roberts, Shadowborn's Terror

“Why is it that nobody can ever say that nicely? It's never 'Shadowborn' like 'cookies', it's always 'Shadowborn', like 'Herpes”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Sorcerer's Loss

“One really could see the appeal of the dark side; there were certainly benefits in terrorising the enemy, in rendering their hopes and works down to nothing but ash and a memory...”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“Magic solved most problems, after all (well, except for the really important ones...)”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Heart's Darkness

“If Magic can do that, let a clumsy young Magician save his brother when he shouldn't be able to... then using it for... hurting people, killing them... how could I do that? When Magic can bring my brother back from the brink of death, how could I use it for that?”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Shadowborn's Terror

“It didn’t say anything good about my personality that I wasn’t nearly as annoyed by the attempted murder as I was about losing the argument.
After all, people try to kill me all the time, but how often am I wrong?”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“They tell you not to look a gift horse in the mouth, and generally I don't. But that's only because when someone presents me with a gift horse, I go looking for Greeks.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“But a lesson for the future, anything that will gossip to you will gossip about you”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Magician's Brother

“So you came upon your position by means of an accident of fate, that doesn't mean that you aren't the right person. You can choose, right here, to be the right person.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“I didn't want to use them or anything, but I liked knowing things, even things I shouldn't. Alright, especially things I shouldn't.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“My mother always taught me that manners cost nothing, but rudeness can cost you everything.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“I'd really more intended rescue than sacrifice. I just didn't dodge quickly enough”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Sorcerer's Loss

“Like many arrogant pricks (myself included), he decided that he could do both.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“Do you lot have nothing else to do but bet on when I'm going to do stupid things?”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Shadowborn's Terror

“It didn’t say anything good about my personality that I wasn’t nearly as annoyed by the attempted murder as I was about losing the argument.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“I could say that I was struck by the moral implications of manipulating a close family member, but it was only as a footnote to the enjoyment I get from playing people like a kazoo”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Magician's Brother

“I was a little sick of having to lie to everyone, if I was honest (for necessities, I mean. I still enjoy recreational lying)”
― H.D.A. Roberts, The Magician's Brother

“Never let it be said that the Fates can't hear you when you think things like that. They hear, alright, and they can be such bitches about correcting you.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“You're quite straightforward for such a fantastic liar”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Heart's Darkness

“I told him not to dick around with you, but would he listen? Oh no, there had to be an intricate plan, we couldn't just slip a little Black Magic into your bacon, it had to be clever!”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Heart's Darkness

“Last stands were for the unprepared and the heroic. I was neither. I was a pragmatist and a sneaky bastard. I’m the guy who makes fun of the hero for the purpose of luring him into a snake-pit. That guy lives, sneaking off with the hero’s girlfriend while said hero is busy trying to find an emergency snake-bite clinic... where there are even more snakes waiting for him.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Defiler's Curse

“Power cost me the best thing in my life. I'd give it all up for one more day with her”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Heart's Darkness

“I guess I'll just have to stay home for the rest of the holidays, oh no, what awful luck, et cetera.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“So this is what it felt like to be out-smarted.
I didn’t like it.
No wonder so many people hated me.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Defiler's Curse

“Thankfully, if there's one thing about people who think they've been clever, it's that they like to talk about it. I know this because I might be just the tiniest bit guilty of that, myself. Alright, I love a good gloat, I’ll admit it.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath

“I didn't know that for sure, but better safe than genocidal.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Archon's Hope

“I have so say, ethical considerations aside, I do love a successful manipulation”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Shadowborn's Terror

“I smiled sympathetically, but the evil little imp that lives in my head and loves it when a plan comes together was doing tiny cartwheels and dancing the can-can.”
― H.D.A. Roberts, Primal's Wrath