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Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.

Janet Morris

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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
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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
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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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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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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.
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Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
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These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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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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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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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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Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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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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Gods have bloody hands.
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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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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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Generosity is never out of season.
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