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I'm reverent from a distance.

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
Distance
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Reverent
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Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
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Painful things are quickly forgotten.
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
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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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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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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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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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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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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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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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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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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
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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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