Marion G. Harmon QUOTES

1 " Whenever somebody asks me to define what a hero is, I remember Latane and Darley’s experiment, staging epileptic fits in front of one, two, or three observers. A solitary observer will help immediately if he’s going to help at all, but the larger the crowd the longer the delay. It’s the Bystander Effect: the wider the diffusion of responsibility, the greater the impulse to let someone else go first. The hero goes first. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Countermoves (Wearing the Cape: Villains Inc., #3)

2 " tall heavily-armed Jacky, beautiful elegant Ozma, and the little girl with the big sword. Dammit "

― Marion G. Harmon , Ronin Games (Wearing the Cape, #5)

3 " Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Ronin Games (Wearing the Cape, #5)

4 " The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun. "

― Marion G. Harmon

5 " Hollywood makes it look like every week’s a new supervillain battle, every day you step out for a Starbuck’s something will happen. So not true; most superhero work is patrol and rescue, and nothing you don’t expect ever happens on your days off. But when you spend most of your time out in the thunderstorms, lightning is more likely to find you. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Countermoves (Wearing the Cape: Villains Inc., #3)

6 " In China, superhumans gifted with beneficial powers are said to be 'kissed by Quan Yin. "

― Marion G. Harmon , The Beginning (Wearing the Cape, #0.5)

7 " Protest Man stood in his usual spot in the northwest corner of the plaza, dressed in his business suit and domino mask and holding one of his usual obscure protest signs (today, it said “Stop the black cars!”). "

― Marion G. Harmon , Young Sentinels (Wearing the Cape, #3)

8 " Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you’re stupid and make bad decisions. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Ronin Games (Wearing the Cape, #5)

9 " 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: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

10 " 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: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

11 " Civilization is not an inevitable good or a natural state; it is enabling good over evil, imposing justice over nature, and it must be always defended. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Countermoves (Wearing the Cape: Villains Inc., #3)

12 " Good things come. Bad things come. Accept both with equanimity. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Countermoves (Wearing the Cape: Villains Inc., #3)

13 " 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: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

14 " society-wide PTSD, "

― Marion G. Harmon , Joyeuse Guard (Wearing the Cape #9)

15 " 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: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

16 " But no, so far travel by magic snow globe had turned out to be disturbingly intentional. It kept sending me where the action was—rather like a fictional Time Lord’s time-traveling police call box (and if I ever saw that blue box I was absolutely knocking on the door and asking for a ride). So "

― Marion G. Harmon , Team-Ups and Crossovers (Wearing the Cape, #6)

17 " 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: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

18 " A man must be worthy of the woman he loves, after all. "

― Marion G. Harmon , Wearing the Cape: A Superhero Story (Wearing the Cape, #1)

19 " When preparing an ambush, estimate the strength of your target. Then overprepare. Never bring “just enough to handle it.” Lei "

― Marion G. Harmon , Endgame (Wearing the Cape: Villains Inc., #4)

20 " St. Michael, defender of man, stand with us in the day of battle. St. Jude, giver of hope, be with us in our desperate hour. St. Christopher, bearer of burdens, lift us when we fall! "

― Marion G. Harmon , Villains Inc. (Wearing the Cape, #2)

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