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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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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Soldiers
Soldier
Commitment
Belief
Dies
Better
Never

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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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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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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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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
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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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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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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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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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What would the world be without him, and those like him?
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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You must become like yourself.
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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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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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