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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.

Janet Morris

Love, Wander

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.91, Paradise Publishing

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I'm just a weapon of the god.

Janet Morris

Honesty, Humility, Weapons

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What would the world be without him, and those like him?

Janet Morris

Love, Sleep, Commitment

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.311, Paradise Publishing

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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.

Janet Morris

Loyalty, Fate, Men

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The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

Janet Morris

Life, Giving, Purpose

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

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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

Janet Morris

Love, Determination, Loneliness

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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.

Janet Morris

Life, Brotherhood, Glory

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.235, Paradise Publishing

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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.

Janet Morris

Life, Evil, Balance

Lynn Abbey, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris (1986). “Soul of the city”, Ace Books

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The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

Janet Morris

Love, Heart, Want

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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

Janet Morris

Destiny, Stranger, Suspicion

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.241, Paradise Publishing

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We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Janet Morris

Hurt, Responsibility, Today

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.15, Paradise Publishing

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Love sees all; hate is blind.

Janet Morris

Love, Hate, Blind

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

Janet Morris

Loyalty, Arrows, Risk

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In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

Janet Morris

Brother, Fighting, Forever

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.42, Paradise Publishing

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Live to fight on other days.

Janet Morris

Fighting

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.151, Paradise Publishing

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I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

Janet Morris

God, Next, Free Will

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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.

Janet Morris

Beach, Home, Fate

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.176, Paradise Publishing

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Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

Janet Morris

Love, Betrayal, Ideas

"Blood Ties: Thieves' World, Book 9". Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, 1986.

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As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

Janet Morris

Jealousy, Betrayal, I've Learned

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Survival has its own etiquette.

Janet Morris

Survival, Strategy, Etiquette

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

Janet Morris

God, Passion, Men

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Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods - inseparable.

Janet Morris

Commitment, Heaven, Inseparable

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.123, Paradise Publishing

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Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season.

Janet Morris

Love, Sanctuary, Fighter

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Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

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Long Ago, Soul, Embodiment

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When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

Janet Morris

Writing, Reality, Thinking

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