On the Shoulders of Titans Quotes

“Sometimes the world’s most brilliant ideas don’t work. Doesn’t make them any less insightful.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“In fact, I didn’t really want to have final words at all, unless they involved something like, “At last, I have transcended beyond the boundaries of my frail human existence.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“I didn’t want, “Healing magic didn’t seem like a priority,” to be my final words.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I’ve found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“They say the shortest way to a man’s heart is through his sternum, after all.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Professor Vellum had no aura at all. That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Jin smirked. “Why? There’s nothing else that interests me here.” Do not be charmed. He is not charming. There is no charming happening here. None.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“It wrote me “helpful” comments about each of the rooms I was going through, like, “This is the Room of Eternal Death. It’s like the Room of Normal Death, but somewhat more repetitive.” That sort of thing.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“And there is no realer man than I,” Vanniv replied with a nod. “Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Even the greatest monsters couldn’t inspire fear like an old woman who was plotting something.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“No problem. Get some sleep.”
“You, too.”
He shook his head. “Not just yet for me.” Keras cracked his neck. “I’m still wearing my trouble coat, and I never got to use it.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Keras grinned. “Good. I haven’t had a decent scrap in a while. Let me get my trouble coat.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“You are not supposed to be here.” Mizuchi turned her head from side to side, searching.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“She glanced at each of us, then back toward Patrick. “Is there someone just giving out legendary magical swords to children? Because I’m fairly certain I recognize all three of those.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Nearby Vanniv grinned and opened his arms as well. Not toward anyone in particular. Patrick, always a good sport, rose from his chair and gave Vanniv a hug. Vanniv seemed briefly startled, then grinned and pulled Patrick in closer, like they’d been long-lost brothers.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Dancing was terrifying. Politicians? Who wanted to talk to them? Certainly not me. Other students? Nah. The last section was food. Eating it is, I decided. Eating forever. “I’m going to go get food,” I declared as I left the others, bravely delving into the massive crowd. This was a mistake. There are people here. I should have just sat down.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Now that we were inside, theoretically we had gotten to the part of the party that was supposed to be fun. I...just wasn’t sure how I was supposed to make that part happen.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“I nodded. She had a point. A point that I fully intended to ignore. My questions had never been about trying to save myself in the first place. I just wanted to know what variables I had to work with in terms of methods of triggering and avoiding elimination.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“I shot Jin a look. I don’t know what kind of look it was. I’m not sure there’s a word for a combination of shock, horror, and admiration occurring all at once. I’m going with shorrorulation. If they can make up words, so can I.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“A part of me tried to fabricate reasons in my mind why it was too dangerous, or why it couldn’t be possible.

But I knew the truth — there was a part of me that was just afraid of change. And another part that was afraid of losing what made me special.

I’d risked my life for that attunement. Was it really fair for others to get them for free? Perhaps even any attunement of their choice?

But that was an inherently selfish line of thinking.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“I fully intended to take anything useful in the spire that I came across, as long as it wasn’t nailed down or on fire. Possibly even if it was.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Could you maybe just write down what your restrictions are? Then maybe we could find a work around.” “It won’t work,” Sheridan explained. “She can’t talk about it, but I understand the general theory. Brands like that are designed to read your thoughts. Attempts to deliberately circumvent the brand will result in increasing levels of danger to the person with it.” Elora nodded and made a gesture of thanks to her sibling. “Okay,” Keras sighed. “So you can’t tell us about them, but this was apparently non-standard. Fine. Where can we get more information?”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Their eye sockets burned with menace. Or maybe fire. It was probably just more fire, to be honest.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“we were both content to spend the trip in awkward silence, which was vastly preferable to awkward conversation.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“In fact, I didn’t really want to have final words at all, unless they involved something like, “At last, I have transcended beyond the boundaries of my frail human existence.” Not in a metaphor for dying sense; more in an ascending to a higher state of being sense. That sounded pleasant.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“The rest of the day was easy. I was still in good spirits from both the world’s easiest final exam and the Haste spell experiments, so I was a little more social than usual. Of course, “social” for me largely meant that I was willing to involve other people in my experiments”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“Could it be Luck’s Touch?” I hadn’t heard of that one. “What’s that?” Keras answered. “Intelligent shape-shifting weapon, usually associated with legends of Aayara Haven, the Lady of Thieves. And yes, it’s plausible Wrynn could have had Luck’s Touch. She and Aayara don’t get along, but Luck’s Touch is notoriously fickle.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“As much as I obsessed over my mana watch, I still didn’t have a regular watch.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans