Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death..

Painful things are quickly forgotten..

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor..

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

The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time..

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band..

These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take ….

And as for death - we get what we expect..

It's in the god's hands..

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have ….

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

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

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….

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise..

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

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle..

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….

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..

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

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 th….

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 throu….