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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Logic
Destiny
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Patience
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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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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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What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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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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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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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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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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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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I must decide if you deserve to die.
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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.
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