Protagonists Quotes

“I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“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.”
― Sophia Lee, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for
by a lot of secondary characters”
― Tony Hoagland

“The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.”
― Wil McCarthy

“You’s always at da place you is always post to be." Smokes”
― Javan Bonds, Zombie Lake

“Overlooked by her parents, and ignored by her brother Theo, who had spent most of his short life at boarding schools or in London, Helen had turned to her inner world of books and imagination. Her suitors had been Romeo, Heathcliff, Mr. Darcy, Edward Rochester, Sir Lancelot, Sydney Carton, and an assortment of golden-haired fairy tale princes.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“And then, usually, if one is not a girl one is a heroine - of the kind you read about. But I am not a heroine, either. A heroine is beautiful - eyes like the sea, shoots opaque glances from under drooping lids, walks with undulating movements, her bright smile haunts one still, falls methodically in love with a man - always with a man, - eats things (they are always called “viands”) with a delicate appetite, and on special occasions her voice is full of tears. I do none of these things. I am not beautiful. I do not walk with
undulating movements - indeed, I have never seen any one walk so, except, perhaps, a cow that has been overfed. My bright smile haunts no one. I shoot no opaque glances from my eyes, which are not like the sea by any means. I have never eaten any viands, and my appetite for what I do eat is most excellent. And my voice has never yet, to my knowledge, been full of tears.
No. I am not a heroine.”
― Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil's Coming

“But how could this ever be wrong, when the world has never felt so whole, when peace dances on the surface of his tongue, when he makes me finally understand why all of those protagonists would move heaven and earth for the chance of living happily ever after?”
― Megan Clawson, Love at First Knight