Janet Morris Quotes

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The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.

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

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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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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

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

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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power....

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

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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

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

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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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Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

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One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

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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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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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Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

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

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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

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