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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
Janet Morris
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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
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Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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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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Gods have bloody hands.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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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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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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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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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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Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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When the balance is restored, people get hurt.
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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
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Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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Arrows are cheap you're expensive.
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Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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