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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.