Inadvisably Compelled > Quotes

“The strong do what they can, and the weak endure what they must,” Shahey quoted at him. “You’re taking the path of the strong. Think about it.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Renegade Mage

“Not to brag, big man, but just because an answer is truthful doesn’t mean it’s useful. They don’t think I’m more than an empty-headed office drone.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Renegade Mage

“All their names are gone from our paperwork, or rather, replaced, with Prospero and Sycorax.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Renegade Mage

“New Affinity Created: Stellar Affinity. Origin Relic Created: [Contained Star]”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Two

“Arthur mentally revised his image of Mister Chase Hall from merely dangerous to absolutely terrifying. Not only had he destroyed a vampire nest in minutes, he’d done so without anyone catching him at it, and of course without getting a scratch on himself. He hadn’t even looked winded. Fae assassin was seeming a pretty reasonable guess.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Paranoid Mage

“According to the spatial literature he’d copied, space mages were good at teleportation, portals, and enchanting things to be larger on the inside. That was it. Nothing else. Callum didn’t believe it at all.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Paranoid Mage

“Two layers of walls didn’t mean much when you still left the windows open.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Paranoid Mage

“One of the nice but unsettling things about a totalitarian state was that when the royal family issued a proclamation upending years of history, there weren’t nearly as many complaints as there might have been.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Three

“My mom and dad said the worst thing for a ruler to do was be insufficiently ruthless,”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Three

“Some of them had weapons, but they were all knapped flint rather than anything metal. Poorly knapped too, which offended my sensibilities. I’d learned to knap damn well, and you needed a good point to penetrate something like mammoth hide, though I’d always found it easier to run the things off a cliff.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Two

“This time what the Forest showed him was a world-eating flash of light, with emptiness afterward. A rising swell of mana, then a sudden dawn with a blazing blue sun over a mountain peak. With it came an admonition of utmost caution, which was unusual for an entity that had historically slapped away a fifty-mile-long flying snake.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Two

“more powerful anyway. Callum was pretty sure there was some Sun Tzu quote about that.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Renegade Mage

“That is delicious," she stated, dropping down into the oversized chair I’d made for her. "Marvelously complex. Notes of fire, gravity, light, and kinetic, a whisper of wind, overtones of pressure, and other things I’ve never tasted before." I knew she was a thaumovore, that she could taste mana, and I’d even see her do so before, but hearing Ansae critique it like fine wine was a still incredibly weird.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Two

“That’s a point for fae, actually. Breaking all the GAR laws to keep his word.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Paranoid Mage

“because using the environment was more powerful anyway. Callum was pretty sure there was some Sun Tzu quote about that.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Renegade Mage

“He had to wonder how many kids could never unlearn those lies and were terrible mages because of it.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Paranoid Mage

“He won’t see us himself?" "He already sees you." Shayma smiled. Apparently he hadn’t much thought about what Blue was. "He saw you when you sailed his shores, when you were at the palace. Blue is a dungeon, and he is Tarnil. He’s the stone under your feet and the air you breathe. When he speaks, he speaks through me.”
― Inadvisably Compelled, Blue Core: Book Two