“The hero withdrew and betook himself for a space to his companions, waiting.”

“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.”

“But no man's a hero to himself.”

“you try and find than waiting,
you are a hero”

“Your son learns the “hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself.”

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

“Why did he get himself killed for us?" "Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do.”

“I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.”

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.”

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”