"The real problem with being around James was……" — Lev Grossman

"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."

— Lev Grossman

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109 Quotes by Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great,…
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly…
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is…
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway…
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in…
Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never…
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I…
In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as…
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of…
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as…

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More Hero Quotes

This quote is filed under Hero Quotes, one of 2,488 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's… — Joe Barton
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner

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