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“Commander," she said, "this is a very important story to get out. The world really needs to know what's happening here in Syria. We can't just sit by and watch murder take place. The world desperately needs to see what's happening inside Baba Amr. Please, if you don't take us in, then this carnage will slip past into history. Assad can crush you right now. You need people to see this. People will listen to me and they will see Paul's pictures. We can help: we can show the world; we can bear witness." p85”
― Paul Conroy, Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment

“Is that . . . is that a fucking pigeon?”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― L.P. Cowling, Infinite

“these narratives help make sense of a day that we, as a country and as a people, are still trying to process.”
― Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11