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“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens...”
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”
“A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
“Remember when being a villain was all about wild nights and brawls in the street?”
“Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.”
“If something went wrong, he’d pay the price. He couldn’t allow any innocent people to be hurt this time. From HEAR NO EVIL”
“Yes, I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just to get through the day. But even then, I had never let people walk all over me. Even in the days w...”
“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”
“I always find heroes who are just like me, I forget they’re only human, and like me, broken”
“He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.”
“You have heroes? No? what kind of feeling exist in you?”
“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.”
“... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.”
“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...”
“Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. “I—I’ll keep it safe,” he muttered to Winger. “For the hero, when he comes…”Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over...”
“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.”
“We were supposed to be heroes.”“There’s no such thing as heroes.”Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
“There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kil...”
“Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.”
