Janet Morris Quotes - Page 6

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• Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

  Janet Morris

  Commitment, Soldier, Belief

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.62, Paradise Publishing

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• Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

  Janet Morris

  Commitment, Battle, Sacred

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.94, Paradise Publishing

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• Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Commitment, Sea

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• "Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

  Janet Morris

  Patience, Destiny, Logic

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• I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Risk, Bearing Witness

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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.

  Janet Morris

  Grief, Commitment, Hands

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• You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Commitment, Evening

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• You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

  Janet Morris

  Sleep, Commitment, Heart

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• Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Brotherhood

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.551, Paradise Publishing

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• And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Horse, Commitment

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

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• Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• Revenge is fruitless.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, War

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.43, Paradise Publishing

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• Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

  Janet Morris

  Ambition, Fighting, Men

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

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• I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Dying, Want

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.

  Janet Morris

  War, Battle, Way

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• Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Revenge

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.491, Paradise Publishing

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• Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Brother

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• Survival's the thing, isn't it?

  Janet Morris

  Determination, Survival

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, Honesty, Integrity

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

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• Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Would Be, Threatening

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.12, Paradise Publishing

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• The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

  Janet Morris

  Cities, Vengeance, Doom

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.240, Paradise Publishing

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• ‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

  Janet Morris

  War, Army, Winning

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• Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.

  Janet Morris

  Death, War, Dying

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.7, Paradise Publishing

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• So some will be left who remember.

  Janet Morris

  Determination, Remember, Left

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• Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.

  Janet Morris

  Strategy, Left

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