Top 160 Janet Morris Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Janet Morris

52. “I survive. I survived it all then and I’ll survive the rest of it. Without your help.”

— Janet Morris

53. “Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.”

— Janet Morris

54. “Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days.”

— Janet Morris

55. “I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.”

— Janet Morris

56. “I must decide if you deserve to die.”

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57. “Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.”

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58. “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.”

— Janet Morris

59. “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.’”

— Janet Morris

60. “Revenge is fruitless.”

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

— Janet Morris

62. “I think we’re all in Cime’s army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn’t forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.”

— Janet Morris

63. “Love sees all; hate is blind.”

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64. “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.”

— Janet Morris

65. “You’re not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.”

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66. “Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.”

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67. “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.”

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68. “Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high – high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.”

— Janet Morris

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

— Janet Morris

70. “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.”

— Janet Morris

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

— Janet Morris

72. “Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.”

— Janet Morris

73. “Every man’s in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.”

— Janet Morris

74. “Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.”

— Janet Morris

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

— Janet Morris

76. “To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.”

— Janet Morris

77. “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.”

— Janet Morris

78. “Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.”

— Janet Morris

79. “I won’t go back and live in the sea again.”

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80. “Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods – inseparable.”

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81. “Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season.”

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82. “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.”

— Janet Morris

83. “One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.”

— Janet Morris

84. “Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.”

— Janet Morris

85. “Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.”

— Janet Morris

86. “If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.”

— Janet Morris

87. “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.”

— Janet Morris

88. “I want to live like a man.”

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89. “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.”

— Janet Morris

90. “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.”

— Janet Morris

91. “You’ve been playing gods-and-witches again, that’s clear.”

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92. “Niko, you’re halfway to where you need to go. It’s the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?”

— Janet Morris

93. “These Stepsons tread where mortals don’t belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?”

— Janet Morris

94. “You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.”

— Janet Morris

95. “As Seth’s apprentice, I’ve learned wisdom of which you’ve never dreamed.”

— Janet Morris

96. “Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.”

— Janet Morris

97. “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.”

— Janet Morris

98. “I’m reverent from a distance.”

— Janet Morris

99. “The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.”

— Janet Morris

100. “Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.”

— Janet Morris