Quote

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

Janet Morris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Restored
Commitment
Balance
Hurt
People

More quotes by Janet Morris

Image
Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
Gods are nothing without their worshipers they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
Janet Morris
Image
Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
Janet Morris
Image
Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
Janet Morris
Image
Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
Janet Morris
Image
You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
Janet Morris
Image
This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
Janet Morris
Image
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?
Janet Morris
Image
Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
Janet Morris
Image
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Janet Morris
Image
It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
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.
Janet Morris
Image
It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
Janet Morris