Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
– Margaret Atwood
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- The monsters don’t live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters. – Kameron Hurley
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- When you establish peace, when you etablish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world. – Mimi Ikonn
- We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious. – Toni Morrison
- Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living. – Danielle Pearl
- Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control. – Lance Conrad
- The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts. – Felix O Hartmann
- I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes. – Robert Black
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- It is an interesting thing, love ,- the Princess stated. -œIt can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs. – James William Peercy
- Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes. – John Patrick Hickey
- Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes. – Pushpa Rana
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- I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words – Alfred de Vigny
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- As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within. – Anthony Liccione
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- War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters? – Kameron Hurley
- … not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside. – Fredrik Backman
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- Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people. – Jos Eduardo Agualusa
- ANSON: I guess we’re all monsters.KAYLEE: Yeah, well, humans can be monsters, too… – T S Joyce
- You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end. – Priya Ardis
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- It’s not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It’s my God who made me qualified when I became a mom. – Tamara L Chilver
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- When focusing only on one’s credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. – Criss Jami
- To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. – Nikki Rowe
- I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming. – Human Angels
- The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
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