172 Quotes by Janet Morris

Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

One man can make another’s life so much better.

Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

For me, myth is the ‘common’ language of us all.

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

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.

Gods have bloody hands.

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.