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“There was no sign he’d even been in a fight –Fucking Golden Boy.”
“I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.”
“I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.”
“I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.”
“I just wasn’t sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way I’d always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?”
“I know of an ‘older boy’ who stuck to his own path without rotting despite being a Level 0. On that day back then when he spoke with his back turned and protecting me, he clearly surpassed me and m...”
“Seattle? With Caine? In a hotel?I’d either kill him or screw him again.“Fuck.”“Alexa, the speakerphone is on,” Caine’s amused voice sounded from my desk.Oh, balls.”
“Ungentlemanliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.”
“As I said, it comes with a price.” His grin was wicked and I suddenly felt a little breathless. “I’m a hard man to please. And I’m also a very busy man. You’ll do what I want when I want and I won’...”
“I want your tongue back.”“And you’ll get it.” He pulled away only to tug his shirt off impatiently.”
“Amantium irae amoris integratio estA Latin saying that means Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love”
“That’s what I said the first time I was called a hero. But you’re going to find that hero is a title other people give you; you don’t really get a say in the matter. Now me, I’m the kind of hero th...”
“Gray rested his hand on Aric’s knee. “Sacrificed yourself, j-just like the giants.”“But I didn’t mean to! It’s only… the prince fell over the cliff, and I didn’t think at all, I just moved. I was t...”
“Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.”
“I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.”
“Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.”
“It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.”
“And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.”
“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an ...”
“I’m not a superhero. I’m background. I’m a good person wrapped in mediocre soul. I want to be better. I really do. But even now in my greatest moment I know this is as good as it will ever get for ...”
