"In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business-and I wanted to try to reflect that."

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"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

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"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."

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"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."

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"My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world."

"You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero."

"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."

"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."

"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

"Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world."

"Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too."

"You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself."

"Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else."

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"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."

"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."

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"Physical intimacy isn't and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy."

"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."

"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."

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