Wearing the Cape Quotes

“We define ourselves as much by what we oppose as what we approve, what we won’t do as what we will do. Each choice we make forecloses other choices, while making still more choices necessary. Life is a decision tree we climb half blind. Astra, Notes from a Life”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“When the storm comes, I’ll be ready. When you wear the cape, you do the job. And I’m a Sentinel, after all. It’s what we do.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“I did what I always did with evils I couldn’t avoid: I forgot about it.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“It sounds silly when you say it out loud, but slap a cape on a guy who can fly, and suddenly he’s familiar and even comforting, or at least a little less strange.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“There are dozens of possible variations of three basic responses: push back at the danger, create immunity to the danger, or escape from the danger.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“A man must be worthy of the woman he loves, after all.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“I couldn’t bench press a tank, but I could flip one over like a turtle on its back.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“There’s a reason for superteams. The paper-scissors-rock nature of superpowers means that nobody, no matter how tough, can defend against every possible kind of attack. If you’ve got no support when your rock meets another guy’s paper, you’re toast, so bring someone with scissors along.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“We define ourselves as much by what we oppose as what we approve, what we won’t do as what we will do. Each choice we make forecloses other choices, while making still more choices necessary. Life is a decision tree we climb half blind.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“Principle of Temporal Superposition. The future is a tangle of infinite possibilities existing simultaneously, which collapse to a single actuality as the present, the moment we’re in now, advances second by second into the future. Free will exists here, at the point of collapse where each decision is actually made. Trailing the present, the past is fixed; it can be visited but not changed. The future can be visited and interacted with but is unfixed and indeterminate. When I visit the future, I am only visiting the most likely future that would unfold from my moment of departure from the present.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“But when you wear the cape, you do the job.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“Rules of Engagement in a Civilian Environment: avoid an encounter-with-force if at all possible, use only powers that can be applied without collateral damage, use all powers that can be applied without collateral damage, do not escalate, stop any escalation, and neutralize civilian risks as quickly as possible.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“OK, so why don’t you just carry a really big gun?” “Because superheroes don’t. Old-fashioned weapons, like swords, warhammers, maces, those are traditional. Guns are for soldiers and the police. And bad guys.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape: Special Edition

“There is, however, a third theory which expresses the reality of time travel. Are you familiar with Schrodinger's Cat?”
― Marion G. Harmon, The Beginning

“This," I said, "is a modern, nontraditional representation of Quan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy.”
― Marion G. Harmon, The Beginning

“We define ourselves as much by what we oppose as what we approve, what we won't do as what we will do. Each choice we make forecloses other choices, while making still more choices necessary. Life is a decision-tree we climb half blind. Astra,”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“If you want to avoid hurting somebody, convince them that fighting you is a Bad Idea. This is hard to do in the heat of the moment, especially if you look like a perky high school cheerleader, so it's best to make the threat credible beforehand through your reputation. Failing that, go for Shock and Awe. If it works, great, if it doesn't you're halfway done anyway.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun. Whom the gods destroy they first make mad. Cupid used a bow and arrow for good reason, and just look at Paris and Helen and the Trojan War if you don't believe me—they didn't have a single love story that ended well. My”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“Superheroines in the comic books always seemed to be at least D cups and possess amazing anti-gravity powers. In reality a lot of padding, much more gratuitous than mine, went on.”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“For want of a nail a horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want of the rider the battle was lost. For want of the battle the kingdom was lost, and all for the want of a horseshoe nail! What”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“Too much knowledge rots the brain. Unless it is the practical sort, such as how to fix my car or operate on my heart. Sometimes I think the more educated a person becomes the more useless he is to the rest of us. I”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape

“I can deal with the things I know and the things I know I don't know. It's the things I don't know I don't know that always bite me in the butt. Astra,”
― Marion G. Harmon, Wearing the Cape