Janet Morris - Fates Quotes

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

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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

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

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

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