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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
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Body
Died
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Heart
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Men
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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Gods have bloody hands.
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Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
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Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
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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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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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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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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
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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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Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.
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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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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.
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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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Arrows are cheap you're expensive.
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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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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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