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“We often look outside to find our hero when there is one inside of each of us. Be your own hero today.”
“Be the hero, the example and the perfection that you are.”
“We were thinkers not talkers.We were problems not solutions.We were heroes of the dark, villains with a spark.”
“Tenacity runs thick in the veins of a villain.”
“Go ahead, scoff, he said, petulant. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees values beyond what's possible. That's the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, u...”
“A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.Two is enough.Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has save...”
“I always find heroes who are just like me, I forget theyre only human, and like me, broken”
“I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun”
“Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.”
“Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.”
“Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. IIll keep it safe, he muttered to Winger. For the hero, when he comesWinger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his th...”
“Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.”
“It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geni...”
“A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost self; and, because a hero seems to have solved many problems that may worry a boy...”
“Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?”
“Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.”
“Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high ...”
“We are here because the world needs heroes.”
“The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times we...”
“Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.”
