Advocate Quotes

“You cannot be given this much,” she hissed, “this much power, and the status it confers, and decide you’ll only use that to get more.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Death is only pretty in the distant and the abstract,” Aelis said, “after the poets and the minstrels have had their go of it. Never up close.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Oh no, I might be mildly uncomfortable for a day or two? I’m not on my fucking deathbed. Now go. Get us some bread and cheese and … goat’s brain or sheep’s asshole or whatever they eat for dinner here.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Once you find a place to stand and stop, do it,” Aelis said. “Power stays put. Desperation circles the room.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“What would Bardun Jacques say to a warden who did that?” “That they weren’t fit for the service, that they were no better than a hedge wizard, that they were losing a war to their own stupidity…” “Probably with more fucks thrown in,” Miralla offered.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.” “My ideas never are. But my execution is flawless.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“No distant threat, however powerful, could stand up against a good breakfast.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Yes,” Miralla said as they headed for the door, “why waste your theurgic energy on seeing the warp and weft of the future, on unraveling the very fabric of the world and the seven energies in order to see straight to what you want or need, when instead you could be rooting around inside a dead or dying body?” “Exactly,” Aelis said, and the two of them went off to dinner, laughing.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Aelis went out to face the day with the full intention of becoming someone’s pain in the ass.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Building bridges has never been one of the Archmagister’s strong suits,” Aelis said. “He’s more likely to burn the bridge, everyone on it, and the towns on either side. Burn the river too, if he thinks the river deserves it.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate

“Slowly, Aelis set the mug down, the temptation to bounce it off the elf’s face entirely too strong.”
― Daniel M. Ford, Advocate