#heroes

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #humor #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-heroes-of-olympus

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

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel #heroes #jackson #neptune #olympians

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

— Jeremy Brett

#easier #heroes #much #than #very

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#former #heroes #latter #poets #race

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#battlefield #be brave #brave #champagne #cowards

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#denzel washington #different #flynn #heroes #john

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11. ↗

— John O'Neill

#division #hero #heroes #i #john

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#look #somebody #up #want

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