Archcrafter Quotes

“he should have placed the mass and anti-mass rooms opposite each other.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“You look nervous," the Fithan said with a sneer. "Did you enter the tournament for adults by mistake?" "Um... your head is bad. It is the wrong shape.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“The House of the Lost is an organization of travelers from strange worlds that was a lesser House with only one Authority, until they gained a powerful new Stronghold. With such undeniable power, all must negotiate with them, but their position is tenuous.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“was not the man his parents or tutors had tried to make him become, but sometimes she hoped that something of what she had tried to teach remained in him.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“No, he wouldn't accept failure. This was one of the few times that he could fight with willpower alone, and he refused to surrender when faced with nothing but his own weakness.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“I'm not a stickler for every single law, but I do have principles. I think you do too, you've just tried to forget them as you've gotten older.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“When Theo said it so confidently, and she felt warm and part of a community, she could believe it. But Nauda knew that the dark would wait forever until it could close in around her.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“When they'd begun the journey, Nauda was certain that she could endure the new environment. In fact, she'd been most concerned that the endless darkness would be boring, since there was nothing to see. But as day after day wore on, the shadows clawed down her throat and began to consume her. It wasn't truly endless darkness, since she could use a lantern within their tent when they were forced to stop.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“I hope you are not discouraged by today, but I would be discouraged.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“for less than a year, and in the tournament she'd fought others with decades of experience, but the fact was that she had lost. Here, that didn't matter. But in her home, losing meant death.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“I'm impressed you haven't run off again.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“A cynical part of his mind was convinced that the drysupernova would have been purchased just before he arrived, or someone would attack him on the way, or Vistgil himself would descend from the sky. None of those happened: he simply walked into the store, purchased the drysupernova from a polite clerk, and left.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“It seemed efficient only through tunnel vision, but with perspective he could see that it limited him in the end.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“rose carefully, beginning to believe that they really had no intention of doing anything more than threatening. Instead of leaving, he glanced over the entire group. "I suppose that's one way to do business." "Business is indeed our concern. We do insist on maintaining certain monopolies, but for those who understand the nature of trade, mutual profit is generally ideal. Failing that, effective retaliation. Please have a pleasant day.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“Forcing me to stop overworking was exactly what I needed. There's something I need to try, immediately." "We definitely invited you as an optimization thing.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“You can take your transcendent scientific enlightenment somewhere else.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“Some who were considered geniuses failed that way, streaking upwards until they ran into hardship and promptly crashing.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“If you do not contribute sufficiently in a month without informing us, it will be viewed as a... lack of commitment.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“I must apologize for my nephew." She spoke in a quiet voice that still seized their attention. "Please forgive his youthful indiscretions. The House has placed a great deal of pressure on him, and it causes him to lash out.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“She didn't seem hurt or discouraged so much as she had simply shut down, operating at her lowest capacity.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter