Janet Morris Quotes - Page 8

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

It's in the god's hands.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

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.

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

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.

You're talent, and we're the talent scouts.

"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

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.'

But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.

In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?

"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

I want to live like a man.

I won't go back and live in the sea again.