8 Quotes by Marion G. Harmon

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

Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war. No rules, No mercy. Fight to kill until you held the battlefield

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.