“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

“There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives...”

“I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.”

“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”

“Live as a villain, die as a hero”