This Used To Be About Dungeons Quotes

“Lying to people was easy for Lola. What was difficult was keeping track of the lies. Sometimes, she just didn’t bother. You could get your way out of lies with more lies often enough, and getting caught in lies didn’t do all that much damage, because people were willing to forgive and forget.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“There was a song, she recalled, about a man who sat down to rest for a moment and then realized a decade later that he had once been moving, but was so covered with moss and leaves that he couldn’t get up. It was her favorite kind of song, a jaunty tune about a depressing subject.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“I like boys. It’s hard not to look at one and see all the good qualities. I see Alfric’s good qualities. There are things that would be good about partnering with him. Um, don’t let him know I said that.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“People often thought their problems were small and left them to fester, and that was true of their bodies as much as their minds.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“Anyone could, in theory, be a wizard, but in practice, if you didn’t have the proper aptitude, you would be forever behind those who had it.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“being a druid,” she went on, a bit sad to let the idea of ‘woods witch’ die, “is kind of like being a sorc, I think, where people have all these ideas about what you’re like and what you do, and none of it changes that you’re just a person with your own stuff going on. You don’t need to be the way that other people think you should be.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“Qymmos, God of Sets, was one of those gods that people tended to feel strongly about. By contrast, Oeyr was one that people took a fair amount of time to actually grasp, and that shielded her from both love and scorn.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“Verity stopped at a dictionary that would give the definition of any word you spoke aloud, in any language, with the caveat that it would give made up definitions if the word didn’t exist.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“He’s probably raised hundreds of bastles,” said Verity. “Thousands, even. He’s helped people with new pets and farmers with new animals. I don’t think it’s right to judge ourselves against perfection, and I certainly don’t think it’s right to judge others against perfection.” That was how Verity had been judged for what seemed to be most of her life. “Did he seem happy?”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“Give me the chance, and I’ll spend money on people.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“Mizuki scowled. “Well, I don’t know, do I?” she asked. “I’ve never run afoul of the churches.” “Yes, you have!” said Hannah, still laughing. “You have loads of times.” “Yeah,” said Mizuki. “But not like… sacrilege.” “Well,” said Hannah, “it’s fine.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“She wondered whether he hadn’t brought his own food, but if he hadn’t, then he was in luck, because she’d brought plenty to share. It was better not to inquire, given that there were so many mistakes she might inadvertently make. Even offering him food was a risk, since it might mark her as weird in some unexpected way. Her father hadn’t had enough time to teach her all the ways to avoid missteps. Silence was the easiest path, she’d found.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“they bring all this into their lives, make it their focus, but it’s not close to them, necessarily. So of course I wouldn’t be surprised if what you care about was far away from you, some distant thing that didn’t touch you personally, ay?”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1

“So you’d want to map it out, is what I’m sayin’.” “You would,” said Alfric. “Did you?” asked Mizuki. “Because you’re Mister Planning, it seems like. Does one of those pockets contain a plan?” “It’s complicated,” said Alfric. “The matter of what’s in your pockets is complicated?” asked Hannah, raising an eyebrow. “I have a map,”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 1