Janet Morris Quotes

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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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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.

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You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

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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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Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.

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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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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

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We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

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