But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. (Gregory Maguire)

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

Gregory Maguire

Related topics

blanket heart hero

Related quotes

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero. View quote
Upamanyu Chatterjee
No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings. View quote
Robin Lane Fox
In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. View quote
Sebastian Barry