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This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

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
Chance
Fought
Body
Died
Soul
Battle
Heart
Choice
Men
Fight
Life
Days
Choices
Fighting
Ontology

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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
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It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
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There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.
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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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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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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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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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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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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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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
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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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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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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
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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.
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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 only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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