Sufficiently Advanced Magic Quotes

“Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point.
Doing paperwork for the government?
Now that was brutal.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn’t matter.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Does he always try to solve problems by making bigger ones?"
Orden nodded sagely, "That would sum up Corin's problem solving methodology quite appropriately”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“And by “I came to the realization”, I mean Derek eventually told me, “We’re flirting, can we please have some space?” Fair enough, Derek. Fair enough. So, I, Corin Cadence, master of understanding human mating rituals, left that room to the two of them and tried not to think about that too much.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Oh, talking to people. That’s a thing I should do again sometime.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“For the future, please promise me you will not make any life-altering oaths in order to influence my love life.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another entity and thus a toll on my exhausted mind.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Nailing my door shut at night wasn't exactly elegant, but it was a pretty effective deterrent.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Sincerely, Mysterious Book Entity Aww, it still liked that name.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“This was both unsettling, since I’d been duped, and a little comforting in that it took away some of my feeling of guilt for my actions. Ah, the sweet power of deflecting responsibility.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Vanniv put a hand over his chest. “I don’t know what you’re implying, madam professor, but I have a strict ‘no attacking cities’ policy.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I liked her hair, fine and bright yellow, like corn. But I’d never been interested in people like that. I’d expected that to change as I’d gotten older, but those much-vaunted pubescent urges just never struck me the same way they seemed to hit other people.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Thousands of keys. We had to step onto a pile of keys just to get inside. It felt something like a legendary dragon’s hoard, only the dragon was either very misguided or extremely eccentric. Or maybe it just wanted to start a new, key-centric economy. Who knew?”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Humancontacttoomuch.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I didn’t like my hand exploding.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Vanniv laughed. “Goddess, you love to hear yourself talk, don’t you? I mean, I respect that — my voice is amazing — but you’re coming on a little strong with the megalomania.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Derek frowned, looking down. “That’s fine... I’ll just, uh, stand here. And protect you. Yes. That is definitely what I will be doing.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It felt something like a legendary dragon’s hoard, only the dragon was either very misguided or extremely eccentric.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“It’s somewhat disconcerting to know that my lifespan is limited by your whim — and your available mana —and not feel any fear about it.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Paralyzing fear. Nothing for you to worry about.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Right, right. You know, you really look quite unwell. You probably should see a healer or something. You humans are so fond of those.” The karvensi took to the air, flying high above the writhing wyvern. “You really are quite a disappointment, wyvern. I expected better from one of the serpent’s children. But alas, few can match my own splendor.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Oh, she meant my team members. I hadn’t really processed most of them as friends yet, other than Patrick. I still wasn’t sure I could call Marissa a friend; I barely knew her. Jin was closer, but he was more of a business associate. Probably.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“That was my father’s philosophy, and we’d both been trained to believe it completely. I didn’t start to have my doubts until after Tristan was gone. I was grateful that Sera had never been raised with those values.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I felt my hands quiver at the unexpected contact. I... wasn’t used to being touched in a way that didn’t involve violence, at least not in the last few years. It helped that it was Sera. I pictured when we’d held hands as children. It had been perfectly normal, even comforting, when we were little. I hadn’t associated touching with pain back then.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. “Dead,” he pronounced, and walked back over.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“I heard about that. I don’t approve of Orden’s antics, but she is funny, at least. That’s better than I can say for most of our staff.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Of course, I hadn’t anticipated a firearm being discharged — how novel! — and the guards already did investigate the scene.” She gave me a pointed look.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic