Alex > Alex's Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“But a lesson for the future, anything that will gossip to you will gossip about you”
― 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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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