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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

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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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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.
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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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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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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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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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.
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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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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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I'm just a weapon of the god.
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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