Test of Metal Quotes

“The author respectfully dedicates this book to everyone who is almost as smart as they think they are.”
― Matthew Stover, Test of Metal

“I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“I have known since a very young age that I am not like other people, be they human, vedalken, viashino, or elf. I have sometimes wondered if the root of that difference might lie in my concept of self, which seems distinctly at variance with the concept others have of themselves. Ask a man who he is, and he will tell you his name. Ask me who I am … and if I wish to give an honest answer, it will come only after a certain amount of detailed self-reflection. I am not a name, and no word truly names me. Who I am is a fluid concept.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“As an artificer by inclination as well as vocation, I have always known that anything worth doing is best accomplished in a deliberate, structured, and meticulous fashion. Feelings and dreams are useless, and imagination is worse. Reality doesn’t care how you think it ought to be, or what you fantasize it might be. Effective action is achieved only by the intelligent application of what is.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“They’re just zombies. If we have to fight our way through shoulder-to-shoulder zombies in all fourteen thousand rooms, I don’t figure it’ll raise too much of a sweat. Take a long damn time, though.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“What, like a giant self-help book? Building a Better You in Only Fourteen Thousand Rooms?”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“a last name’s just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents.” I”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“last name’s just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents.” I”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal

“many truths we regard as immutable are, in fact, surprisingly context dependent.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Test of Metal