People say love is weak, but they're wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things - patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And every kind of love - the epic and the small, the noble and the base - the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. That was the lesson I learned that day, and I'll be forever grateful I did. Some years later, deep in the ruins called Theatre of Death, it salvaged everything. Terry Hayes
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The day of the accident, I was a different person. I was a child who had lost her parents and had to take care of her younger brother. A day later, the day after that, I was a war reporter covering a story that changed my life. After that, I became a warrior, one of the most famous of all time. And from there on, from the moment I kissed Bradley Manning to our last kiss together in the hospital, every time I fell in love it was with someone who would be wounded in the process: in Iraq and Afghanistan and at home.

Source: I Am Pilgrim

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