“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”
“The people, they need someone to live through. Trust me, I used to be in roller derby back in the day. People need a hero.”
“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...”
“A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.”
“I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?”