Janet Morris
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.'Collection: Real
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.Collection: Loyalty
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.Collection: Responsibility
You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.Collection: Power
Generosity is never out of season.Collection: Commitment
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.Collection: Nature
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man.Collection: Love
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.Collection: War
It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.Collection: Freedom
If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?Collection: Ontology
One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - TempusCollection: Swings
It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.Collection: Soul
Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.Collection: Revenge
Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.Collection: Life
Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.Collection: Loyalty
Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Life
The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.Collection: Loyalty
Every man heals himself.Collection: Destiny
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.Collection: Loyalty
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.Collection: Love
So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.Collection: Love
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.Collection: Knowledge
You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.Collection: Risk
We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.Collection: Nature
I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.Collection: Loyalty
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.Collection: Death
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.Collection: Time
The only unfair fight is the one you lose.Collection: Loyalty
To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.Collection: Home
Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.Collection: Commitment
Let fools believe what fools believe.Collection: Loyalty
When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.Collection: Life
You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.Collection: God
For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.Collection: Fighting
Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.Collection: Errors
And as for death - we get what we expect.Collection: Humility
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, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.Collection: Love
I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.Collection: Commitment
One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.Collection: Loyalty
Be careful what you pray for.Collection: Recovery
Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.Collection: Fate
What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.Collection: Believe
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 the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.Collection: Horse
Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Death
But we're dying here.Collection: Risk
Order is its own reward.Collection: Commitment
Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.Collection: Adventure
If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.Collection: Destiny