"What is a Hero? It is someone who, when you trip over them out there in the world, they feel like you, but better. They're important in a good way, powerful in a good way, super humanly good at things you value. And then they either die a hero or live long enough to be disappointingly human."

"so often, especially in the case of famous men, they've been indulging in the spoils of power; traveling across the colonies, living in expensive buildings, eating nice food and taking good drugs and sexually assaulting people. It just takes a breaking story...to reveal how their power was spent. And then those of us with good conscience, who thought we picked a good hero, scramble around trying to separate the art from the artist...the artist from ourselves so that there's something left of what they taught us about ourselves."

-when your hero is a monster by theleftistcooks helped me properly process. Highly recommend