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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

Janet Morris

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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
Stranger
Destiny
Things
Suspicion

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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
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When the balance is restored, people get hurt.
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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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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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What would the world be without him, and those like him?
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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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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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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You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
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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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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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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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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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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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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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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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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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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
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