#heroes

…turning your ankle hurts like hell, even if you're a superhero. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#vampires #love

My knees were weak but he held me with one hand, guiding me with the motion of his hips. I was completely his to do with what he wanted and he knew it. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#alpha-male #alpha-males #erotic #erotic-romance #erotica

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#heroes #perseverance #men

When she had asked him how he was able to kill two men with his bare hands, he had gone into asshole mode, telling her not to look a gift horse in the mouth. ↗

— Brad Taylor

#men

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #legends #risk

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing. ↗

— Peadar Ó Guilín

#men #men

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 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

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

— GG Allin

#heroes #i #influences #just #me