This Used To Be About Dungeons Quotes

“Can I help?” asked Hannah. It was, in her opinion, a bad question. Most people would say they didn’t need help, even when they did, and people didn’t always know whether help was what they needed. But it was necessary, sometimes, to get someone to take stock of their own situation.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“There was a part of Isra that felt good when Verity was gone, and she didn’t particularly like that part of her. It was a feeling that was hard to put into words, but she had been getting better about putting abstract things into words lately, and practice made perfect. When Verity was gone, it felt like there was suddenly much more time, more world to explore, and while Isra loved Verity, deeply, she also loved the sense of, well… freedom, she supposed. It racked her with guilt though, to think of Verity being gone as ‘freedom’, but it was the sensation that came through her, if she was understanding her own emotions correctly.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“Alfric was a man who liked facts and figures and relating concepts to other people in a somewhat dry way, but there was a light in his eyes when he was entad testing.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“I think you get excited,” he’d said. “I think you have an active imagination. Most people don’t intend to lie, but their storytelling instinct gets the better of them, and they think of the things they didn’t say at the time but which make them sound better, or they exaggerate what happened, and it builds over time. And then they think there’s no harm in it.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“Mizuki wasn’t even sure why she’d offered to be the one on the outside. Maybe she had felt like Alfric always took all the risk for himself, and that he didn’t trust her to make good decisions despite the fact that she had made pretty much nothing but good decisions in the whole time they’d known each other. Still, the price for learning that Alfric did trust her with important dungeon things was having to go do important dungeon things.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“If you want to hide from the world, truly hide, you need powerful magic or to keep moving, and even then, there’s a chance that won’t be enough.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“She took her headscarf off when she wandered into the store and pretended to be another person, an airy dilettante who went into such stores every day of her life and couldn’t possibly have cared less about the dresses, which she was an expert in. This was a technique Verity had suggested: sometimes, when she was particularly anxious or needed to present a face, she would simply pretend to be someone else. It was nice to smile and nice to not have a care in the world.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“She made a circle with her thumb and forefinger of one hand, and then moved like she was going to insert a finger of the other hand into the circle, then stopped in confusion. “Wait, what is it for girls?” “I don’t think there is one,” said Hannah. “Lame,” said Mizuki. She made a circle with each hand, then bumped them together.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“Isra thought that this was probably flirting, or if it wasn’t, she didn’t actually know what flirting was. There was a back-and-forth to the way they talked, a teasing familiarity that she had seen often in her books. She wanted to ask them but had the sense that this would be quite rude, so she resolved to do it when she was alone with Mizuki, who seemed to like to talk more.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“That’s how it always felt with music. They start slow, and then it’s one more thing, and one more thing, and different techniques, and it feels like it will never, ever end. And it still hasn’t ended, but each new thing I learn means there’s just slightly less that’s left. I think that’s how you go about it, just chip away and hope that eventually you can look back at all the chips and see that you’ve made a little alcove for yourself.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3

“There was a cool impassiveness to the way she apologized, as though she wasn’t actually sorry, but Verity had known her long enough to know that this was just how Isra was.”
― Alexander Wales, This Used To Be About Dungeons: Volume 3