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“What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?”
“Look,” Liam said, “sometimes being a hero isn’t about getting the glory. It’s about doing what needs to be done.”
“No one wants to go through life alone, fighting battles single-handedly their whole life. Not even the hardiest of heroes. That’s just a miserable existence. Everyone needs someone in their corner,...”
“The hero is the one who goes beyond his ability to improve his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills of others.”
“I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first.""What are the other—" Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, "two?”
“The way he smiled with just one corner of his mouth said he’d show her a good time if she let him.”
“Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.”
“No man is a hero to his own wife no woman is a wife to her own hero.”
“The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.”
“Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.”
“Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”
“See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!”
