172 Quotes by Janet Morris

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

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

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you’ve spilled it.

War’s balance will prevail.

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.’

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

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

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