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I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

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Loyalty, Determination, Horse

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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.

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Death, Blood, Long

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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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.

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Nature, Simple, Clouds

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.292, Paradise Publishing

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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.

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Time, War, Fighting

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.194, Paradise Publishing

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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

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Loyalty, Fighting, Risk

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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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.

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Home, Responsibility, Greatest Victory

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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Let fools believe what fools believe.

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Loyalty, Believe, Fool

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.165, Paradise Publishing

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

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Commitment, Heart, Winning

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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.

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Nature, War, Men

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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

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Fighting, Survival, Chance

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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

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God, War, Pride

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

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Errors, Risk, Survival

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When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

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Life, Giving

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.284, Paradise Publishing

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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.

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Love, War, Honor

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I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

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Commitment, Discipline, Ontology

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.235, Paradise Publishing

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One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

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Loyalty, Horse, Men

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Be careful what you pray for.

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Recovery, Fate, Praying

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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

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Fate, Destiny, Men

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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.

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Believe, Commitment, Land

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

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Horse, Pain, War

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

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Love, Children, Justice

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And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

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Death, Horse, Commitment

Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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

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Commitment, Soldier, Belief

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.62, Paradise Publishing

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

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Adventure, Commitment, Skins

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

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Love, Time, Commitment

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