Janet Morris Quotes - Page 2

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• Let fools believe what fools believe.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Believe, Fool

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.165, Paradise Publishing

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• The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

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  Loyalty, Fighting, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

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  Loyalty, Determination, Horse

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• Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

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  Death, Blood, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

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  Nature, Simple, Clouds

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.292, Paradise Publishing

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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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  Time, War, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.194, Paradise Publishing

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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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  Commitment, Heart, Winning

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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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  Nature, War, Men

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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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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  Love, Commitment, Tragedy

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

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• You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

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  God, War, Pride

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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• Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

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  Errors, Risk, Survival

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• When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

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  Life, Giving

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.284, Paradise Publishing

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• For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

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  Fighting, Survival, Chance

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• These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

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  Love, War, Honor

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• Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

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  Revenge, Fall, Heart

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• I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

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  Commitment, Discipline, Ontology

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.235, Paradise Publishing

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• One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

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  Loyalty, Horse, Men

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• Be careful what you pray for.

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  Recovery, Fate, Praying

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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• Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

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• What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

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  Believe, Commitment, Land

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

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  Horse, Pain, War

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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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  Love, Children, Justice

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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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  Dream, Home, Suffering

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• Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.

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  God, Destiny, Wonder

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.212, Paradise Publishing

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• Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

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  God, War, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.457, Paradise Publishing

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