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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
Heart
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Men
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Life
Days
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
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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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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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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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Gods have bloody hands.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
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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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Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.
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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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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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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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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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Arrows are cheap you're expensive.
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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.
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Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
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I'm reverent from a distance.
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