“As you get older, it’s more difficult to have heroes, but it’s just as necessary.”
“I was a coward. I've been a coward. So have you. We've both got blood on our hands. We're not the heroes who saved the world, we're the villains who survived it. I've made my peace with that. You should, too, because guilt is a weight you'll never swim away from.”
Source: Blood Shadow
“I've always been the protagonist of my own story, but it's interesting to think I could be a villain in somebody else's. Somebody out there has tried to attain or achieve something, and I have stood in their way. To an extent, we're each an encapsulation of both protagonist and antagonist, hero and villain.”
Source: Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
“As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?”
Source: A Northern Light
“I... lost somebody important to me. That’s when I realised reality doesn’t always end happy like the stories... No one’s going to show up in the nick of time. No one’s going to save you. So instead of being sad... and waiting for help to arrive... I decided I would be the hero. And I will. I’ll turn tragedies into happy endings. That’s why I’m here.”
Source: RWBY Official Manga Anthology Vol. 1: Red Like Roses
“If we look to people who make no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for tyrants or unjust wars, we shall have few heroes and heroines”
Source: Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
“What would they think if they knew that their champion - the Hero of Ages, their savior - doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn’t be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder - just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“She always said she wanted to be like the heroes in the stories...”
Source: RWBY Official Manga Anthology Vol. 1: Red Like Roses
“But hope, like heroes, can prove hard to kill.”
Source: Marvel 1602
“Because right now, I'm worse than dead. I'm forgotten.”
Source: DC Universe: Rebirth Omnibus