I don't have to be a hero, he thought in silent wonder. All I have to do is pretend. — Matthew Stover

You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.

"I guess heroes feel like they've accomplished something." "And you haven't? Several thousand slaves might disagree."

The feeling he'd had, that he was about to get himself killed, swelled into an overwhelming premonition of doom. Ganner's knees went weak, and a very large part of him wanted to bolt down the corridor and get away-but though he hadn't been much of a hero, the one virtue he'd never had to fake was courage.