Ume

“A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask