Andrew Rowe > Quotes

“Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point.
Doing paperwork for the government?
Now that was brutal.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn’t matter.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Sometimes the world’s most brilliant ideas don’t work. Doesn’t make them any less insightful.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“In fact, I didn’t really want to have final words at all, unless they involved something like, “At last, I have transcended beyond the boundaries of my frail human existence.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Does he always try to solve problems by making bigger ones?"
Orden nodded sagely, "That would sum up Corin's problem solving methodology quite appropriately”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“everyone who exists is mentally compromised. We all accumulate false information over time, internalize it, and are influenced by it, consciously or otherwise. We are, in part, a product of these biases, as well as all other information we gather in our lifetimes.”
― Andrew Rowe, The Torch that Ignites the Stars

“And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I’ve found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“I didn’t want, “Healing magic didn’t seem like a priority,” to be my final words.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“And by “I came to the realization”, I mean Derek eventually told me, “We’re flirting, can we please have some space?” Fair enough, Derek. Fair enough. So, I, Corin Cadence, master of understanding human mating rituals, left that room to the two of them and tried not to think about that too much.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Oh, talking to people. That’s a thing I should do again sometime.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“For the future, please promise me you will not make any life-altering oaths in order to influence my love life.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another entity and thus a toll on my exhausted mind.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.”
― Andrew Rowe

“Because if everyone in this world waits for another Hero to save them, I don’t know if this world will survive. And if I’m content to wait and let another person risk their life for me, I don’t know if I’m worth saving.”
― Andrew Rowe, How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps

“Nailing my door shut at night wasn't exactly elegant, but it was a pretty effective deterrent.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“They say the shortest way to a man’s heart is through his sternum, after all.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“It wrote me “helpful” comments about each of the rooms I was going through, like, “This is the Room of Eternal Death. It’s like the Room of Normal Death, but somewhat more repetitive.” That sort of thing.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“And there is no realer man than I,” Vanniv replied with a nod. “Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Even the greatest monsters couldn’t inspire fear like an old woman who was plotting something.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Professor Vellum had no aura at all. That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn’t been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,”
― Andrew Rowe, The Torch that Ignites the Stars

“This was both unsettling, since I’d been duped, and a little comforting in that it took away some of my feeling of guilt for my actions. Ah, the sweet power of deflecting responsibility.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I liked her hair, fine and bright yellow, like corn. But I’d never been interested in people like that. I’d expected that to change as I’d gotten older, but those much-vaunted pubescent urges just never struck me the same way they seemed to hit other people.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Jin smirked. “Why? There’s nothing else that interests me here.” Do not be charmed. He is not charming. There is no charming happening here. None.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Sincerely, Mysterious Book Entity Aww, it still liked that name.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Vanniv put a hand over his chest. “I don’t know what you’re implying, madam professor, but I have a strict ‘no attacking cities’ policy.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“A part of me tried to fabricate reasons in my mind why it was too dangerous, or why it couldn’t be possible.

But I knew the truth — there was a part of me that was just afraid of change. And another part that was afraid of losing what made me special.

I’d risked my life for that attunement. Was it really fair for others to get them for free? Perhaps even any attunement of their choice?

But that was an inherently selfish line of thinking.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Dancing was terrifying. Politicians? Who wanted to talk to them? Certainly not me. Other students? Nah. The last section was food. Eating it is, I decided. Eating forever. “I’m going to go get food,” I declared as I left the others, bravely delving into the massive crowd. This was a mistake. There are people here. I should have just sat down.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans