Explore Quotes by Janet Morris

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die

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

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

"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.

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

This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

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

I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

‎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.

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

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

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

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

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

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.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

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

Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.