Explore Quotes by Janet Morris

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

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

One man can make another's life so much better.

Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.

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.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.

And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

You must become like yourself.

The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

I'm reverent from a distance.

It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.

It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

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

Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.

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

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.