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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
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Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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Destiny
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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What is needed is never to be had without price.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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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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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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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
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You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.
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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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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.
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Love sees all hate is blind.
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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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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.
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To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.
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