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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Destiny
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Patience
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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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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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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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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Survival has its own etiquette.
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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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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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Generosity is never out of season.
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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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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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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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Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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