Janet Morris Quotes

Gods have bloody hands.

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

Generosity is never out of season.

You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

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.

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.

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.

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

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?

One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

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

Be careful what you pray for.

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.

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.

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

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.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

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.

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

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

For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

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

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

‎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.

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.

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

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

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

‎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.

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.

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.