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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

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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
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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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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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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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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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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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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
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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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Generosity is never out of season.
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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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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 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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Painful things are quickly forgotten.
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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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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You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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