--Hero by Perry Moore
“You can’t go on like you’re going to start really living one day, like all this is some preamble to some great life that’s magically going to appear. I’m a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don’t hold out that there’s something better waiting on the other side. It doesn’t work that way. When you’re gone, you’re gone. There’s no pearly white gates with an open bar and all the Midori you can drink. You can only get one go-round and you gotta make it count. I know that sounds harsh, but it’s true. Don’t wait.”
--Hero by Perry Moore
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“He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn’t want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I’ll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodlines, nothing else to look forward to. For that point on I’d become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to---one overwhelming failure. I looked over to him, a little boy just wanting his dad to look back on him with approval. I wanted him to make some joke about what a loser that other kids was, about how I’d really kicked ass tonight, about how he’d never seen a high score like that. I wanted him to muss my hair and take me home and pop some popcorn so we could stay up late and watch Saturday Night Live. I wanted him to tell me everything would be okay."
--Hero by Perry Moore “But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”
--Hero by Perry Moore “I thought about what I was going to say: Oh, hi there, I’m Thom. I just want to say what an honor it is to be part of this prestigious team. A leader that wants to kick my ass, some bitchy girl with a major attitude problem, a geriatric precog, a guy who should probably be quarantined at the Center for Disease Control, and me, just your average, ordinary, gay teen superhero. Surely we’re what the founding members had in mind when they banded together to form the world’s premier superhero group. What’s not to be excited about?”
--Hero by Perry Moore “Surely this wasn’t our entire team: an old lady, who between smokes, said she could see the future; a girl who smelled like pizza and hated me; and a guy who made people sick. This couldn’t be everyone. We at least had to have a team leader or something.”
--Hero by Perry Moore “I never thought I’d have a story worth telling, at least not one about me. I always knew I was different, but until I discovered I had my own story, I never thought I was anything special. My destiny began to unfurl during my very last game at school. What started with an accident on the court ended with the single most devastating look I ever got from my father. And it made me want to die.”
--Hero by Perry Moore |