Top 100 Janet Morris Quotes
#1. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
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#2. It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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#9. 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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#10. Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods - inseparable.
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#11. It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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#12. Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
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#13. You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
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#18. No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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#20. Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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#21. 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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#22. For Tempus ... was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves ...
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#23. Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
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#24. Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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#26. Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
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#27. I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.
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#28. One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.
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#29. 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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#30. For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.
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#31. 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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#32. Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man.
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#33. The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
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#34. The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.
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#35. 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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#36. You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
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#37. Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.
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#39. The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.
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#40. There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.
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#41. One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
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#42. Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
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#43. 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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#44. Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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#45. All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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#46. When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.
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#48. Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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#50. 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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#51. Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.
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#52. I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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#54. This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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#55. Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
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#56. Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.
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#58. I ... keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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#59. For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.
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#60. We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
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#61. I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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#62. 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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#63. I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.
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#64. Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.
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#65. Old enough to kill means old enough to die
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#66. The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.
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#67. What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
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#68. Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.
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#69. You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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#70. Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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#71. Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
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#72. This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
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#73. It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
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#74. You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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#75. Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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#76. And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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#78. These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.
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#79. 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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#81. One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus
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#82. Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.
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#86. If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
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#87. Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..
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#88. What would the world be without him, and those like him?
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#90. To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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#91. Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.
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#92. 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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#93. What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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#94. Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
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#95. Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.
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#96. Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power ...
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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#100. 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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