Janet Morris Quotes
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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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It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.
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Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.
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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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But we're dying here.
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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, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.
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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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The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.
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You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
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When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.
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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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The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
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One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
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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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Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.
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"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.
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Live to fight on other days.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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