Janet Morris Quotes

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This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

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Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

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It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

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Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."

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Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

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Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

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Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

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Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

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Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

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Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

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For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

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The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.

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I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.

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Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

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There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

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In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

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Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

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"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

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