“Are you a hero, actually?”“Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.”

“The facts are always less than what really happened.”

“All actual heroes are essential men,And all men possible heroes.”

“But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.”

“Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ”