Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.
When the balance is restored, people get hurt.
This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
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.
I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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.
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
Generosity is never out of season.
Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.
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.
Love sees all; hate is blind.
Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.
Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
I'm reverent from a distance.
It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.
Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.
Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods