Books Quote by Harper Lee

“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he’d have…

— Sylvain Reynard

“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task…

— Amit Kalantri

“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to…

— Henry Miller

“More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.”

— Lev Shestov

“He let them be heroes.”

— Robert Jordan

“I break things, a lot of things, but I don’t want one of them to be you.”

— Patricia Briggs

“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have…

— Epictetus

“There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.”

— Jennifer Echols

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson