We Can Be Heroes Quotes

“We shouldn't have to do it-
set ourselves on fire
to change the way things are.

But I think maybe
to be a girl in this world
sometimes you have to burn.

Sometimes it's how
we light the way.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“If the hero dies, they call
it a Greek tragedy,
but when the heroine dies,
it's a romance.

Now I only want stories
where girls are the heroes,
and our fates are neither written in the stars nor held
in the palm of a man's hand,
but are entirely our own.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“Why kill yourself trying to meet everyone else's expectation of perfect?”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“It wasn't fair that Cassie's name would forever be known for how she died. Instead of her laughter, her poetry, her voice.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“SHERIFF THOMAS: You know what I mean, Ms. Logan. It did. What are we going to do, take everyone’s guns away just because one girl died?”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“If you don't know
Beck's humor, or Vivian's grace.
Their riotous, righteous anger.
That's what girls
are made of.

I would know, because I've seen it
and because, for a brief time,
I was made of all those things, too.

And I have also seen
the way they bent time
and space, like their grief
held a gravity
that could not be denied.
And when it gave in,
the strangest thing happened.
It let me come back to them,
for a time, perhaps just
long enough
to remind the world
what we girls are capable of.
Like when Cassandra
saw the future,
when Ariadne
escaped the maze,
when Circe cursed the men,
and Helen started a war,
when Medusa was hunted,
and Andromeda was sacrificed
for her city.

If you already know
the truth about girls
(if you've been lucky enough
to see it)
then you already know
it is possible for three girls
to be at the center of the their own stories-
to be at the center
of everything.

You already know that
we can be heroes.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“The things that once meant everything to Vivian meant nothing now.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So, tonight, I wish too, and the wish begins, "If only. . . If only this world loved living girls as much as it loved dead ones.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes