“I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.”
“I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.”
“I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.”
“A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.”
“A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero”