Calder Quotes

“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Well, he’s scraping up what there is. Reckon we’ll need every ready hand when it comes to a battle. Yours too, maybe.’
‘Oh, you’ll have to hold me back!’ Calder slapped the hilt of his sword. ‘Can’t wait to get started!’
‘You ever even drawn the fucking thing?’ sneered Tenways, stretching his neck out to spit again.
‘Just the once. I had to trim your daughter’s hairy cunt before I could get at it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“..."And when you go back to your room tonight, I'll know I'm closer to you than I was yesterday, and my bed will have your smell all over it".”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“I watched him climb to the platform and take a seat in the short row of benches along the wall, wishing that I had been wiser in my choice of heroes. I wished I had known about Calder. A man broken twice over, still willing to hand his life over to the greater good. A man drowning in bitterness and resentment, still a steadfast protector to the very source of his anguish. A man who lost everything and turned it into something, who had done what I was trying to do now. I was staring down the path of impossibility, knowing he had already walked it … and that was what a real hero was.”
― Jane Washington, A Tempest of Shadows