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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…
- Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.
- Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
- Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised…
- "Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time...
- Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in…
- 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:…
- Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods - inseparable.
- Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.
- "Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from…
- 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…
- 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,…
- If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain…
- Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies,…
- It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
- I'm reverent from a distance.
- When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and…
- Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
- "Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."
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