The Never Hero Quotes

“I have not voted in a human presidential election for quite some time, Jonathan. Admittedly, it may not be my place. Still, do you know what really stops me from selecting a candidate?” Jonathan listened but mostly focused on containing his nausea. “It’s a paradox, I know. It just seems that anyone smart enough to know the responsibility of such a seat of power would never be dumb enough to apply for it.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“You’re worth three of these other retards that I have working for me,” Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he’d been flattered; then he realized he’d just been given the value of three retards.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“I only trust a man with power when he is wise enough not to want it.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“walls. Ribs broke. A lung collapsed. The air rushed out of him and he nearly lost his grasp on consciousness. On the ground floor, he desperately attempted to breathe, but only coughed on mouthfuls of agitated dust. He knew he’d lost. The beast, hurt but not injured, rose to its feet over him, its massive shoulders and head only”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“The last thing you’ll ever have to do for him,”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“It’s okay to lose to opponent,” says the teacher, “but must not lose to fear.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“He ran his hand down the surface and felt some imperfections in the steel near the center. He flipped it over to see that the alien had put an engraving into one of the surfaces. “Excali-bar,” Jonathan said out loud. He smiled, rolling his eyes at the alien’s sense of humor.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“There are an infinite number of shades”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“I’m sorry I’m here, waiting in the dark like this, Johnathon. I had to be sure I could slip away if you were not alone. Of course, I doubt a statement like that would put anyone at else.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“He supposed he was like any soldier. The world didn’t need to know he was out there. They certainly shouldn’t want to watch him do whatever he needed to do, become whatever he had to become. They’d reap the benefits of his existence regardless.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“dust. It was silent by nature—the only noise that found its way into the dark passage was the occasional passing of the elevator car. A button would be pressed and the hoist would come to life, taking the lift from one floor to another. The doorway would open, the passenger would exit, and the shaft would return to its hibernation.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“just as he had a moment earlier. I hope it hurts, he thought. They slammed back and forth violently, beam to beam, until their bodies dropped into free fall down the shaft’s center. Despite Peter’s efforts, it had little effect on the uncontrollable spin into the dark. They crashed hard into the basement floor. The cement cracked beneath them as it absorbed their fall. The lower floors of the building rumbled as the vibrations from the impact shook its foundation. The beast’s weight on top of him made the sudden”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“[A] desire inspired by an aspiration could not contend with need. Desire might gain strength from praise, but it did nothing for true need.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“where only maintenance men ever visited, were sheathed in years of built up dust. It was silent by nature—the only noise that”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“of from the libraries of information that our species left behind. The only impression I have of my species comes from my brother and historical records. “I could speak volumes about those times, but what is relevant to our current situation is this,” Heyer began. “We eventually each chose a species to settle with, live among. We took on bodies that allowed us to blend in with that species and became a part of those worlds. I chose Earth because Malkier said that the people here were the most like the people I had never known, our own species. Malkier, who had been alive to see the self-destructive traits of our species end in our inevitable”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“At first, you’ll want the hurt to go away, to find some way to cut the feelings out of yourself. Then, as time passes, you’ll find yourself clinging to that pain. Somehow, your heart believes that to stop feeling hurt is a betrayal. That it calls into question your own faith in your commitment to the passion you had. “Life is clever, Jonathan. One day you wake up and realize it doesn’t hurt, yet there was never any betrayal. It’s not that your emotions changed, but that you’re no longer the person who felt those things in the first place. That person is in the past, and his feelings were real, but you are no longer him. “That person will have become a story you tell yourself to remember who you thought you were.” She’d”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“He’d amassed a number of new enemies. They had names like kettle bell, dead lifts, and overhead press. He’d lost many a confrontation with his arch nemesis, squats.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“It read Staff Sergeant Douglas Tibbs with the surviving members of his Army Ranger Strike Team, Libya, 1984.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“When I’m around people, they always want to talk. Somewhere along the line, talking got too exhausting, too complicated.” She”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“Seriously, when I was in high school I worked at a video store,” Collin said. “One day, this guy I’d worked with for months just loses it, starts talking about how aliens have been watching him. How they’re plotting to take him back to the mother ship. I had to call his mother to come take him to a shrink. He’d been perfectly fine the day before, just like any other day.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“It read Staff Sargent Douglas Tibbs with the surviving members of his army ranger strike team, Libya 1984. The men in the picture looked solemn, sad. Jonathan had to assume that the keyword from the photo was ‘surviving.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero

“He’d asked his father why it mattered. What was a pair of slacks over a pair of jeans? How was an uncomfortable collar or a tie relevant to showing respect? If they had to be grieving, couldn’t they at least do it in comfortable clothes? He’d been eleven then and his father, patience wearing thin from grief, had let out a tired sigh as he knelt in front of Jonathan to help him with his tie. “Traditions get passed down; they become the rules. Some make sense, some seem pointless, but others,” Douglas said, “others only show their value when you don’t obey them.” “This one seems stupid,” Jonathan responded, squirming in his tight collar as his father finished. “Well,” Douglas said, standing and turning to the mirror to put on his own tie, “I don’t think today is the day that we test the rules.”
― T. Ellery Hodges, The Never Hero