#hero

Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#heroes #left-out #change

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank #hazel #hero #humor #inspirational

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#real-life #design

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#book #dreams #hero #heroes #old-man

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#age #done #ever #heroes #last

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#essence #even #hero #play #regeneration

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ↗

— GG Allin

#heroes #i #influences #just #me

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. ↗

— Kurt Angle

#best #heros #join #me #olympic

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#fun #hero #i #i think #more

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. ↗

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

#fight #heroism #image #intellectual #israel