#heroes

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#fighting #heroes #hoax #iraq #men

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#about #aware #background #because #heroes

Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?" Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing." Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?" Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them." "Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#mentors #stories #simplicity

And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve, Percy. Can you believe that?” “No, he admitted. “So…you knew you liked me from that moment?” She smirked. “I hated you at first. You annoyed me. Then I tolerated you for a few years. Then—” “Okay, fine.” She leaned in and kissed: him a good, proper kiss without anyone watching—no Romans anywhere, no screaming satyr chaperones. She pulled away. “I missed you, Percy.” Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn’t really cover that. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#annabeth-chase #heroes-of-olympus #missing-you #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” “Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?” Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!” “Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hero-training #heroes #heroes-of-olympus #leo-valdez #mermaids

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. ↗

— Jeremy Brett

#easier #heroes #much #than #very

The law has no power over heroes. ↗

— Charlotte Lennox

#heroes #law #over

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#birth #common #cowards #death #escape

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#going #happen #heroes #high #high school

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#during #hard #hard times #hero #heroes