Top 50 Andrew Rowe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Undoubtedly from training with the dueling cane. Thanks, Dad. Really great parenting there.”

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2. “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.”

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3. “They say the shortest way to a man’s heart is through his sternum, after all.”

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4. “I didn’t want, “Healing magic didn’t seem like a priority,” to be my final words.”

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5. “Professor Vellum had no aura at all. That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn’t matter.”

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8. “And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “Even the greatest monsters couldn’t inspire fear like an old woman who was plotting something.”

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11. “Sincerely, Mysterious Book Entity Aww, it still liked that name.”

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12. “Apparently, just adding mobility by itself would add force to my motions without any stability, so I’d basically be blasting myself forward with each step. Hilarious, but impractical.”

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13. “Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I.”

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14. “But I didn’t trust luck. Luck wasn’t reliable.”

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15. “It felt something like a legendary dragon’s hoard, only the dragon was either very misguided or extremely eccentric.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “Sometimes the world’s most brilliant ideas don’t work. Doesn’t make them any less insightful.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. “Dead,” he pronounced, and walked back over.”

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22. “For the future, please promise me you will not make any life-altering oaths in order to influence my love life.”

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23. “I didn’t even have a chance to groan before she’d put down her plate and sat down. 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.”

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24. “Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong.”

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25. “Father probably expected me to fight back, to compete, to try to prove myself... and for Sera to have to try harder to measure up to that. He’d never understood. His approval had stopped being important to me the moment he’d written his elder son off as dead.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “No,” he countered, “you owe me two.” He pointed upward. “One is for the repair of my floor.”

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28. “Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “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?”

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32. “I didn’t like my hand exploding.”

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33. “Paralyzing fear. Nothing for you to worry about.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “I’d always thought “die” would have more symmetry in the last line, but when I’d brought it up to my parents, they’d accused me of being needlessly fatalistic.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “Oh, talking to people. That’s a thing I should do again sometime.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “Nailing my door shut at night wasn’t exactly elegant, but it was a pretty effective deterrent.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “Of my students, more than half fail to take this basic precaution, because people are terrible, stupid, and also lazy.” She folded her arms, leaning against the table. “I mention this lesson every year, and every year, I am disappointed. Nevertheless, in my weakness, I retain some hope that this class will be the one class to finally demonstrate a degree of basic competence. I look forward to being disappointed once again.”

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43. “I wasn’t going to compete with her for Father’s approval, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t find a way to make this into entertainment of my own.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.”

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49. “More dangerous ghost pirates. More krakens. Ghost pirate krakens.”

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50. “That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking.”

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