Janet Morris
I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.Collection: Revenge
Revenge is fruitless.Collection: Revenge
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.Collection: Revenge
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.Collection: Ambition
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.Collection: Book
Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.Collection: Loyalty
So some will be left who remember.Collection: Determination
Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.Collection: Pride
It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.Collection: Life
We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.Collection: Hurt
Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.Collection: Life
Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.Collection: Life
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.Collection: Life
Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.Collection: Love
Love sees all; hate is blind.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.Collection: Love
Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season.Collection: Love
Survival's the thing, isn't it?Collection: Determination
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.Collection: Dream
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.Collection: God
It's in the god's hands.Collection: God
What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.Collection: Struggle
Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.Collection: God
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.'Collection: Fate
Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.Collection: God
Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.Collection: Responsibility
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 to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.Collection: Long Ago
Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.Collection: Loyalty
Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.Collection: God
"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."Collection: God
For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.Collection: Communication
I must decide if you deserve to die.Collection: Revenge
Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.Collection: Love
Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.Collection: Love
Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.Collection: Love
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.Collection: Loyalty
What would the world be without him, and those like him?Collection: Love
I'm just a weapon of the god.Collection: Honesty
One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.Collection: Responsibility
I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.Collection: God
Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.Collection: Determination
Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.Collection: Loyalty
Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.Collection: Love
As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.Collection: Jealousy
You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.Collection: God
And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.Collection: Modesty
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.Collection: Writing
Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.Collection: War